Audrey L. Hall

Audrey L. Hall (Audrey Hall) is a broadcast journalist, radio and television personality, presenter and producer. She started her career at Sunset Radio in 1989, she is producer and presenter at ALL FM,[1] REFORM and Sonder Radio,[2] and also a contributor for BBC 5Live and BBC Radio Manchester.[3][4]

Audrey Hall
Born
Audrey Lorraine Hall

(1959-11-23) 23 November 1959
CitizenshipBritish
OccupationJournalist and radio presenter
Years active1989-present
EmployerALL FM
BBC Radio Manchester
BBC 5 Live
Sonder Radio

Career

Audrey Hall began her broadcasting career at Sunset Radio in 1989 as a producer and presenter of a five minute interview of the day called Just doin the job. She was then was invited to take over news with the daily Sunset Tonight programme. In 1990, Audrey joined BBC Radio Manchester to host The People Show which she produced and co-presented from 1990 to 2003. The People is one of the BBC’s longest running Community Programs. From 1992 to 2000, Audrey Hall worked from researcher to assistant producer for several television prime time programs for Granada TV,ITN, BBC & C4, working on live daytime shows, live topical debate discussion and arts shows, a religion series, documentaries, arts, lifestyle,social commentary series and two documentary pilots including The Telford Hangings in 2000 which won recognition[5] at The Media Awards in 2001.[6][7] In 2021, she was the producer and script narrator at Nina Simone Nina at the Nia at HOME, The Untold Orchestra's Tribute to Nina Simone's opening of the Nia Centre in Hulme in 1991. [8]

Audrey was a network presenter for 2 years with Jazz FM (UK) from 1995 to 1997. In 2015, when Sunset Radio was relaunched after its closure in October 1993, Audrey rejoined the station, now The New Sunset Radio, to present a two hour weekly music magazine show which she hosted up to 2017.[9] She then joined ALL FM in August 2018 where she is core presenter and producer of Audrey's Early Drive[10] a weekly music magazine show. Audrey also produces and presents Takeover shows for REFORM and Sonder Radio.

She was recognised as Best Media Production Finalist at Ethnic Minority Media Awards in 1998 then she was First Honours winner[11] at Community Radio Awards UK 2021.[12] In August 2018, Audrey's Early Drive with Debbie Makki was ranked in the top 35 most listened to interviews in the world that week on MixCloud.

References

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