Alan Price-Roberts or Alan Roberts (born 19 July 1946) is a British

British people

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 radio presenter, producer

Radio producer

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 and actor

Actor

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.

Broadcasting career

Originally from Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Marlow is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England...

, Roberts made his radio

Radio

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 debut at 19 with a short stint on Radio England as Rob Allen and a couple of programmes on sister station Britain Radio under his real name.

Roberts was the station programme director with The Voice of Peace

Voice of Peace

Voice of Peace was an offshore radio station that served the Middle East for 20 years from the former Dutch cargo vessel MV Peace , anchored off the coast of Tel Aviv...

 during a journey through the Suez Canal

Suez Canal

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 in January 1976. Founded by Jewish businessman Abie Nathan

Abie Nathan

Avraham "Abie" Nathan was an Israeli humanitarian and peace activist, perhaps best known as the founder of the Voice of Peace radio station.-Early years:...

, the "Peace Ship" broadcast highly successfully to millions of Israeli and Arab

Palestinian people

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 listeners from the Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

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 off the coast of Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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. It was staffed by a multi-national group of mainly Christian

Christian

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 DJs and crew members, and gave several young broadcasters their first taste of radio.

He first started broadcasting on British radio in 1977 at BBC

BBC

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 Radio Oxford

BBC Radio Oxford

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, one of a generation of British broadcasters that included Timmy Mallett

Timmy Mallett

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, David Freeman, Martin Stanford

Martin Stanford

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, Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson

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, Guy Michelmore

Guy Michelmore

-Education:Michelmore was educated at the independent St John's School in Leatherhead, Surrey.-News presenter:Michelmore began reporting on Anglia TV's About Anglia before joining the BBC programme Newsroom South East in 1993. Guy left the programme to be replaced by Tim Ewart from ITN. His mother...

 and Peter Grant.

After several years with the Radio Oxford, Alan joined Swansea Sound

Swansea Sound

Swansea Sound is a British independent local radio station broadcasting to Swansea and surrounding areas, aimed at a core 40+ demographic. Swansea Sound was the first local radio station in Wales, and has won several awards, including the number one regional station in South Wales....

 replacing John Sachs

John Sachs

John Sachs is a British television presenter, voiceover and commentator known for his narration on the original series of Gladiators and as a long time DJ on London's 95.8 CapitalFM....

. He then moved to Severn Sound

Severn Sound

Heart Gloucestershire is an Independent Local Radio station that broadcasts to Gloucestershire, England. The station now has just two programmes a day broadcasting live from Gloucestershire with the majority of its output being the same as most other stations in the Heart network, owned by Global...

 where he was Head of Music and their first voice on air. Subsequently he moved to GWR FM

GWR FM

GWR FM was a network of three radio stations in the south west of England. All three stations were rebranded and joined the Heart Network on 23 March 2009.*GWR FM Bristol - now Heart Bristol - was launched in 1981 as Radio West, it relaunched as GWR in 1985....

 as afternoon presenter, replacing Paul Phear who had left to join Chiltern Radio

Chiltern Radio

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.

In 1989, Roberts joined BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

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 as the producer of The Gloria Hunniford

Gloria Hunniford

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 Show, then Ed Stewart

Ed Stewart

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 and Derek Jameson

Derek Jameson

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. He also produced the final Sounds Easy series with David Jacobs

David Jacobs (disc jockey)

David Lewis Jacobs CBE is a British actor and broadcaster who gained prominence as presenter of the peak-time BBC Television show Juke Box Jury and the BBC Radio 4 political forum, Any Questions?-Early career:...

 and regular series with Benny Green, Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Fred Titchmarsh, MBE DL is an English gardener, broadcaster and novelist. After working as a professional gardener and a garden journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on gardening programmes...

 and Martin Kelner

Martin Kelner

Martin B. Kelner is a British journalist, author, comedian and radio presenter, educated at Stand Grammar School, in Whitefield near Manchester....

. He also produced documentary series on Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...

, Cher

Cher

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, Elkie Brooks

Elkie Brooks

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, the Decca Records Story and The Vipers Tale a three part documentary about the life of his friend Wally Whyton

Wally Whyton

Wallace Victor "Wally" Whyton was a British musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality.Born in London, England, Whyton grew up listening to jazz, blues and folk music, and learned to play first the piano, then trombone, and finally guitar...

.

Whilst at Radio 2 Roberts clandestinely broadcast on the satellite radio network Quality Europe FM

QEFM

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 as DJ Paul Revere, presenting the Saturday Afternoon Soft Rock Show for about two months in 1990.

In 1996, Roberts left Radio 2 and joined the BBC World Service

BBC World Service

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 where he produced Bob Holness, Tommy Vance

Tommy Vance

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, Sarah Ward

Sarah Ward

Sarah Adelaide Ward was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.In the 1931 Conservative landslide, Ward was elected Member of Parliament for Cannock, Staffordshire, ousting the Labour incumbent, William Adamson. Ward held the seat until 1935, when it was regained by Adamson.- External...

 and the last two years of Country Style with Wally Whyton before he died in 1997. He presented Country Style for a short while before the programme, closely associated with Whyton, finally ended.

Acting and other work

As an actor, Roberts has appeared in Robin of Sherwood

Robin of Sherwood

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for HTV

HTV

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, Boon

Boon (TV series)

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for Central TV, and Reasonable Force and Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

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, for BBC TV. He has directed a concert and documentary television programme on Claudia Hirshfeld for German TV.

He moved to Torquay

Torquay

Torquay is a town in the unitary authority area of Torbay and ceremonial county of Devon, England. It lies south of Exeter along the A380 on the north of Torbay, north-east of Plymouth and adjoins the neighbouring town of Paignton on the west of the bay. Torquay’s population of 63,998 during the...

in 2000 and set up Quay Productions, a small scale production company making local history, art and travel programmes for digital television networks and occasional documentaries for BBC networks and local radio. Since 2005 he has been mainly engaged in painting but makes occasional programmes for BBC local radio.
In 2009 Alan joined up again with The Voice of Peace in Israel and now syndicates two weekly programmes and presents the daily Afternoon Delight weekdays. He also airs the same shows to The Voice of Peace International who braodcast from Stoke on Trent in UK rather clandestinely and via the internet. In 2011 also joined up with Hometown Radio Station Marlow FM and now presents a weekly Country Show called Americanza and Alien's Blues Cruise for them.