James Alexander Gordon
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James Alexander Gordon
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James Alexander Gordon was a Scottish radio broadcaster, best known for reading out football results on BBC radio. Born in Edinburgh in 1936, as a baby he was paralysed with polio and he spent a large part of his childhood in hospital. He worked in music publishing before joining the BBC in 1972, becoming an announcer and newsreader until the early 1990s. In 1974 he followed in the footsteps of John Webster, reading the classified football results, first on Radio 2 and later on BBC Radio 5 Live.
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Scottish radio broadcaster (1936–2014)
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2024-04-15T09:49:12Z
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