John Toal is a
BBC Radio Ulster and
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, Radio drama, drama, High culture, culture and the arts ...
presenter.
A native of
Newry he has been a radio presenter since 1989, shortly after he left
Queen's University, Belfast where he read for a degree in music.
His Saturday morning radio programme won a gold award at the 2015
Phonographic Performance Ireland
Phonographic Performance Ireland CLG (PPI) is a music licensing company which controls the public performance, broadcasting, reproduction of recording, and other rights of the recordings under its jurisdiction, which comprise the recordings of seve ...
(PPI) Radio Awards and another gold award at the 2016
Celtic Media Festival
The Celtic Media Festival, formerly known as the Celtic Film and Television Festival, aims to promote the languages and cultures of the Celtic nations in film, on television, radio and new media. The festival is an annual three-day celebration ...
.
On television he has presented Trad Ar Fad! and the BBC NI
Last Night of the Proms.
References
External links
''The John Toal Show''(BBC Radio Ulster)
''Classical Connections with John Toal''(BBC Radio Ulster)
BBC radio presenters
BBC television presenters
People from Newry
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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