Ian Skelly

Ian Skelly is a British writer, continuity announcer and BBC radio presenter. Born in Manchester, grew up in West Lancashire and studied in Birmingham. He started to work for the BBC in Birmingham in the late 80s[1]. He has worked for Radio 3 for the past 20 years. In that time he has presented nearly every programme on the station. In 2010 he coauthored a book about climate change; "Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World"[2] with Charles, Prince of Wales[3][4] and Tony Juniper. In 2018 Skelly became presenter of the morning show Essential Classics.[5]

Career

Before his latest stint, Skelly appeared on BBC in concert broadcasts, BBC proms and on shows like Breakfast and in Tune.[6]

gollark: Why have icons? Apple devices have high-res screens, right? Just make it say the name of the application in very small text over and over again to fill up the squares.
gollark: Personally I consider rounding and shading very uncool.
gollark: Yes, why?
gollark: I maybe can (although likely not *now* given the situation), but it would be annoying and expensive. Also I have no idea where or how to.
gollark: My Wileyfox Swift 1 was pretty great, it had a plastic back cover, dual SIM cards, and a removable battery, but a design flaw in the micro-USB port apparently made most of the existing devices become unusable after about two years.

References
  1. "BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics - Ian Skelly". BBC. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  2. "Harmony: A New Way of Looking at the World, By HRH The Prince of Wales with Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly". Independent. Independent. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  3. "Prince Charles: my countryside heroes". Telegraph UK. Telegraph UK. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  4. "Prince Charles co-authors Ladybird climate change book". BBC. BBC. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  5. "Ian Skelly to join Suzy Klein on Essential Classics". BBC. BBC. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  6. "Ian Skelly replaces Rob Cowan on BBC Radio 3". Radio Today. Radio Today. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
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