Peter Haigh

Peter Varley Haigh (28 July 1925 – 18 January 2001) was an English broadcaster and in-vision continuity announcer for BBC Television in the years after the Second World War. After being commissioned into the fifth battalion of the Welsh Guards in 1944, he joined the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) as a producer and announcer in Jerusalem and Benghazi. Haigh began working for BBC Television as an announcer in 1952 and was part of the team of continuity announcers headed by McDonald Hobley, Mary Malcolm and Sylvia Peters. He compèred several programmes on a freelance basis for the BBC and the ITV network, including the weekly film programme review Picture Parade and Come Dancing. (Via Wikipedia)