Background
The daughter of market traders in Liverpool, she was educated at Street Anne"s College, Oxford University.
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Gillian Reynolds
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Street Anne"s College.
Career
Radio critic of The Daily Telegraph since 1975, she previously held the same post at The Guardian for seven years from 1967. In between these two jobs she was the first Programme Controller of Radio City in Liverpool in 1974. More recently, Reynolds was involved in the group organising the events in Liverpool while the city was European City of Culture in 2008.
Reynolds is a Fellow of The Radio Academy, a trustee of the National Museum in Liverpool, a Fellow of the Royal Television Society and an Honorary Fellow of her old Oxford college, Street Anne"son
Until January 2009, she chaired the Charles Parker Archive Trust at Birmingham Central Library. Considered a wise owl in broadcasting circles, Reynolds celebrated her 40 years with the Telegraph by reporting in December 2015: "Radio is more popular with British Broadcasting Corporation audiences than television, delivering 43 per cent of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s total audience".
She argued that "radio is perceived as a medium of the future not a dusty relic", crediting digital technology, interactivity by audiences and the huge breadth of creativity radio offers. She wrote: "There are ways of telling a story on radio.. that audio does better than any other medium, more intimately and with more immediate impact."
Gillian Reynolds was awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1999.
Membership
She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the National Media Museum in Bradford, Yorkshire.
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