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<p>2A00:23C7:AE31:DE00:1081:348F:8DA6:28FD: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Short description|English actor}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}<br /> {{Use British English|date=May 2017}}<br /> {{More footnotes needed|date=July 2011}}<br /> {{Infobox person<br /> | name = Graham Roberts<br /> | image = grahamroberts.png<br /> | alt = Image of Graham Roberts on news programme calendar<br /> | caption = Graham Roberts on ''[[Calendar (British TV programme)|Calendar]]'' in 1993<br /> | birth_name = &lt;!-- only use if different from name --&gt;<br /> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|10|10|df=y}}<br /> | birth_place = [[Chester]], [[Cheshire]], England <br /> | death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|10|28|1929|10|10|df=y}}<br /> | death_place = <br /> | nationality = <br /> | other_names = <br /> | occupation = television announcer<br /> | years_active = ?-1998<br /> | known_for = YTV continuity announcer<br /> | notable_works = <br /> | television = <br /> }}<br /> <br /> '''Graham Roberts''' (10 October 1929 – 28 October 2004) was an English actor best known for his work on [[BBC Radio 3]] and [[BBC Radio 4]], including 31 years playing George Barford, the [[gamekeeper]] in Radio 4 [[soap opera]] ''[[The Archers]]''. He was born and raised in [[Chester]], and was educated at King's School in the city. Later, he studied at [[Bristol]] and later [[Victoria University of Manchester|Manchester University]].<br /> <br /> He also appeared on [[film]] and [[television]], including the series ''[[Z Cars]]''. <br /> <br /> He was also a continuity announcer with [[Yorkshire Television]] from its early days in the late 1960s until 1993. He retired from Yorkshire on the same day as [[Redvers Kyle]], who had also been with YTV since its launch 25 years earlier, and both announcers made a rare in-vision appearance on the regional news programme ''[[ITV News Calendar|Calendar]]'' to mark their retirement.&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite web|title=YTV announcers Graham Roberts and Redvers Kyle retire – Calendar clip| via=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQKK6yqmCqI|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120045204/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQKK6yqmCqI|archive-date=2020-11-20|access-date=2015-11-20}}&lt;/ref&gt; He also worked at [[Grampian Television]].<br /> <br /> Roberts died on 28 October 2004, 18 days after his 75th birthday. His wife Yvonne survived him.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> * [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/graham-roberts-545468.html Obituary] in ''[[The Independent]]''.<br /> * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3963225.stm BBC News item] on Roberts's death.<br /> * {{IMDb name|id=0731138|name=Graham Roberts}}<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Graham}}<br /> [[Category:1929 births]]<br /> [[Category:2004 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:English male radio actors]]<br /> [[Category:English male television actors]]<br /> [[Category:Radio and television announcers]]<br /> [[Category:Male actors from Chester]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{England-actor-stub}}</div>

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