Roger Tilling is a British voiceover artist and broadcaster.
Biography
Tilling began his broadcasting career in local radio. He worked at Chiltern Radio in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire and Oasis Radio in Hertfordshire (later Mercury 96.6) in 1995. He then moved into television working as a continuity announcer for Westcountry Television (the ITV region in the South West of England) in 1996. In 1997 he joined Granada Television as a continuity and promo voiceover. A year later, he moved to Leeds and worked as a continuity and trailer voiceover for Yorkshire Television, Granada, Tyne Tees and Border Television, as well as being a highly regular on-air voice of LWT in London at the weekends from 1998-2002 and then for national ITV after the amalgamation of the ITV regions to London.
Whilst at Granada Television, he was asked to be the temporary announcer of University Challenge for the 1997 series, and then returned permanently in 2001 and has remained the voice of the programme to date. His voice is heard at the start of every show introducing the presenter, Jeremy Paxman, and whenever a contestant buzzes in for a starter question announcing their college and surname. The voiceovers are performed live in the studio and become noticeably more energetic towards the end of the programme, with split-second precision every time as the pace of the show increases.
Apart from popping up on radio and TV commercials with the likes of John Motson and Alan Whicker, he emerged on Granada Sky Broadcasting in 1999, before becoming the voice of The Hallmark Channel in 2001 and movies24 in 2006.
Tilling has also been the voice of other game shows on various channels, including the 70-episode series of Family Fortunes aired in 2002 and 2003. BBC's Panorama_(TV_series) producers have regularly brought him in for vocal contributions for their current affairs programmes since 2003.
In 2005, Five_(TV_channel) chose Tilling to voice the Man Eaters series of wildlife documentaries, and Naked Science series of science documentaries. He is currently the voice of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Formula 1 and Deep Heat television commercials in the UK. His voice can also be heard narrating documentaries for National Geographic Channel which are broadcast worldwide across the global network, as well as History Channel.
Denso have used Roger as the english voice of their in-car Satellite Navigation systems for factory-fitted models in Land Rover, Range Rover, Jaguar and Toyota cars since 2005.
Ironically, he holds a degree in Aeronautical Engineering and is a qualified private pilot. Tilling lives in London and remains busy as a voiceover in television, documentaries, commercials, radio and the corporate business.
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| Preceded by Jim Pope 1963–2001 |
University Challenge announcer 2001–present |
Succeeded by Current announcer |
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