Tommy Boyd
| Tommy Boyd | |
|---|---|
| Born |
14 December 1952 Ealing, London, England |
| Occupation | Broadcaster |
Timothy Leslie Boyd (born 14 December 1952), better known as Tommy Boyd, is a British radio presenter.
From 1977 to 1980, Boyd was co-presenter of the ITV children's flagship magazine programme Magpie replacing Douglas Rae. In 1981 he presented "What's Happening?", a news quiz. He also presented the Saturday TV-am show Wide Awake Club from 1986–1990, and its Sunday spin-off WAC Extra, throughout the 1980s. In 1982 he joined the cast of Jigsaw, including Janet Ellis, Sylvester McCoy and David Rappaport. Boyd also hosted Children's BBC programme called Puzzle Trail.
Between 1982 and 1984, Boyd also fronted Central Television's Saturday morning kids TV show The Saturday Show alongside Isla St Clair and followed this with Saturday Starship in 1985 (co-presented by Bonnie Langford). From April 1991 – December 1992, he spent a period as the presenter for ITV's children's strand. In 1993/4, Boyd worked on the The Children's Channel, a satellite television channel.
In the late 1990s, Boyd presented the TV programme MLB on Five in 1997.
During the late 1970s, he hosted the Saturday morning radio show Jellybone aimed at children on LBC radio in London. The show featured items such as a phone-in news quiz, and a segment where group or club members – such as bus spotters – were invited into the studio to discuss their hobby, and to take part in the Jellybone Jury, reviewing and scoring the latest record releases. The best known host of the show was LBC stalwart Therese Birch. Later on he hosted the weekend "Nightline" phone-in programme replacing Jeremy Beadle as host on Sunday nights in June 1980. The programme is remembered for its mystery guest segment, where a famous person would come in and put on a fake voice and listeners would call in and guess who it was – Roy Castle once featured and "talked" only by playing his trombone. For his Nightline show Boyd was awarded the Royal Variety Club Radio Personality of the Year. He returned to children's radio on LBC with a Sunday afternoon programme called "Lazily Stacey", named after a fictional detective he'd invented. He later co-presented the breakfast show with Anne Diamond, before finally leaving the station in 1999.
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