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Linda McAuley is a presenter for the
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consumer advice programme ''
On Your Behalf On Your Behalf is a consumer affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster on Saturday mornings and repeated midweek in the evening. The programme, first broadcast in September 1995, offers advice to listeners' consumer problems and report ...
''. McAuley first worked for
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in 1976 as a copytaker, then newsreader and presenter. She joined BBC Radio Ulster in 1978 as presenter of the evening drive time programme ''Change Gear''. Since September 1995 she has hosted the Saturday morning consumer programme ''On Your Behalf''. The
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named ''On Your Behalf'' "Best Consumer Television or Radio Programme", and McAuley was awarded "National Consumer Journalist of the Year for Northern Ireland" in 2006. McAuley married Paul Wilson in 1998. She has three sons, Neil, Michael and James, together with her first husband, whom she divorced in 1992. She lives in Bangor,
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