About Malcolm

 

ACTOR AND BROADCASTER

Malcolm Brown began his career with HTV in Cardiff as a continuity announcer before moving to Granada TV in Manchester at the beginning of the Seventies. In 1982, TVS won the franchise for the south of England and Malcolm moved there as part of the new announcing and news reading team. Malcolm went freelance in 1992 and has since been involved in radio, TV, video and corporate work.

NATIONAL TV

Granada Television
World In Action, University Challenge, The Comedians, Square One, promotional trailers.

TVS
Do It, Tell The Truth, Concentration, Some Lie Some Die.

BBC
Kilroy.

INTERNATIONAL TV

BBC World Service:
Promotional trailers.

American PBS Network:
Iron Way-Granite Alp (see Video)

REGIONAL TV

Granada Television
Granada Reports, pilot of Archie The Afghan.
1971-82 . . . In-vision & sound only continuity announcing and in-vision news reading.

TVS
On The Art Beat, pilot of On Safari.
1982-92 . . .In vision & sound only continuity announcing and in-vision news reading.

Anglia, BSB, HTV, Meridian, Tyne Tees, WestCountry
Freelance continuity

SATELLITE

Bravo/Trouble, BSB, Challenge, Discovery, Discovery Home & Leisure, Living, Lifestyle Television, UK Arena, UK Gold, UK Horizons, UK Play, UK Style, Screenshop, Sky Movie Channel, Superchannel
Infomercials, promotions

Written and produced commercials for KCET/BBC acclaimed series "1914-18" and Pioneer Productions/Discovery Channel "Raging Planet" on video.

VIDEO

Narrations:
Wrote and recorded the narration of MITV's documentary Iron Way-Granite Alp / The Albula Line and narrated all twenty-five other titles in the series broadcast on PSB in America
Millennium Century Films: Oxford,Town & Gown
National Council for Vocational Qualifications: The Training Revolution for Companies and The Training Revolution for Managers
Department Of Health & Social Security: For Your Benefit - Disability / Working Allowance Explained
British Rail: Your Rights and Your Pensions and Controlling Rail Movements by Hand Signals
Tax Training: Form P11D
Cable & Wireless Marine: Santander Undersea Cable
 Lockheed Martin - Yeovilton Air/Sea Museum: Merlin Blue Kestrel 5000 Radar
 Performed in and narrated various other technical/industrial videos.

CORPORATE

Abbey Life, Castrol Oil, Husqvana, OneSwoop.com
 
RADIO

BBC Radio 4: Feedback, Eats Shoots and Leaves, The Real Sherlock Holmes, A Pebble in My Mouth
BBC World Service: Write On
Melody FM, London: presented Breakfast Show
Chiltern Radio, Melody FM, Piccadilly Radio, Radio City, Ocean Sound: Commercial & trailer voice-overs
Ocean Sound: Presented Saturday midday show and Sunday morning show
Retail Broadcasting Services: Presenting
Played leading roles in the first ILR 13 part drama serial The Last Rose of Summer and its sequel Hunters Moon (written by Stephen Gallagher of TV's Chimera & Bugs fame)

OTHER

Podcast: Presented daily for The Times newspaper
CD-ROM: AssiDomän, Barclay's Bank, Castrol Oil
Narrated on Penguin Cassette


THEATRE

 Major roles:
 Toby Belch       Twelfth Night
 Porthos             The Three Musketeers
 Lloyd Dallas     Noises Off
 Norman     The Dresser
 Rev. Hale     The Crucible
 Don Antonio     The Rover
 Freddie     A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
 Goodlack     Fair Maid of the West
 Father Dolan     The Shaugrhaun
 Bassanio     The Merchant of Venice
 Headingly     Donkey's Years
 Ken Harrison     Whose Life is it Anyway?
 Jack Rover     Wild Oats
 George     Same Time Next Year
 Aimwell     The Beaux Stratagem
 DeWinter     Rebecca
 Lövberg     Hedda Gabler
 Careless     School for Scandal