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Bill Buckley (born 8 January 1959 in Birmingham, United Kingdom) is a radio and television presenter and former actor. For three years, he was a co-presenter of BBC Television's consumer affairs programme ''That's Life!''. He currently presents on BBC Radio Devon and has presented shows on BBC Radio Solent, BBC Southern Counties Radio, BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio Oxford, London talk radio station LBC 97.3, BBC London 94.9 and numerous others. ==Career== Buckley's broadcasting career began in 1982. While working as a newspaper reporter in his native West Midlands, he was chosen from thousands of hopefuls to present the consumer programme, ''That's Life!'', on BBC1 with Esther Rantzen. His mother had entered him for the job without his knowing. After three years, he That's Life left to become a reporter for the BBC's Holiday Programme, and spent the next six years travelling the world. Other TV appearances include ''Call My Bluff, Blankety Blank, All Star Secrets, Songs of Praise, Children in Need'', and a variety of regional work in the south for Meridian Television on subjects as diverse as consumer affairs, politics and amateur film-making. From 1989, he has also presented daily radio shows for numerous commercial and BBC stations in the South, The Midlands, London, Manchester and now in Plymouth. Buckley's acting experience includes playing Joseph in ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat'' at Leatherhead. He also toured in the black comedy Widow's Weeds, and starred in numerous pantomimes, playing King in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Theatre Royal, Brighton. He was also an extra in the Birmingham-based soap opera Crossroads. On hearing of the sacking of one of the programme's leading cast members Noele Gordon, Bill led a campaign outside the studios of Crossroads' producer ATV in Birmingham demanding her reinstatement and performed a protest song entitled "Meg is Magic".〔http://www.billbuckley.net/cgi-bin/page.pl?p=showreel〕〔http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/atv-today-08071981-crossroads-protest-record/MediaEntry/36925.html〕 The song was soon launched as a record.〔http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/bill-buckley-bobby-dazzler-meg-is-magic-do-i-love-you〕 He also provided the words and music for Su Pollard's number two hit single, "Starting Together" which featured as the signature tune for the BBC Television documentary "The Marriage" in 1986〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015yy0m〕 Beginning in 1997, Buckley was senior continuity announcer for Channel 5 Television from its launch for five-and-a-half years. He became well known for his commentary over the closing credits of the channel's late-night/early-morning run of ''Prisoner: Cell Block H'', on which he read out viewers' letters and made comments about the episode just broadcast. Buckley regularly reviews the national press on “BBC Breakfast”, the BBC News Channel and Sky News.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015yy0m〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Buckley (radio presenter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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