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David Allan (born in Bury, Lancashire on 7 August 1940, educated at Bury Grammar School) is a...

David Allan (born in Bury, Lancashire on 7 August 1940, educated at Bury Grammar School) is a British television continuity announcer and radio presenter. After nine years working in theatre as a stage manager, he began broadcasting on the offshore station Radio 390 in 1966, before joining BBC Radio 2 to present country music programmes from 1976 to part of the late 1980s. In 1994, he presented shows on Country 1035 in London, but he didn't stay long and was a heavy critic of their music playlist. By the 1990s, he was presenting country music programmes on Radio 2 again, but was later replaced by Bob Harris. He also presented a show on Melody FM. He was also heard at weekends on PrimeTime Radio, before that station closed down. In 2002, he won an International Broadcaster award from the American Country Music Association. Allan is also a country music journalist, having written his own page of views of the country music scene in the magazine Country Music People regularly and presenting country music programming for BBC TV. Allan began freelancing as a network continuity announcer for BBC Television in 1969 and became a staff announcer three years later, remaining with the