(Ronald) Gordon Honeycombe - Appearances, Works

British writer, playwright, and broadcaster, born in Karachi, SE Pakistan (formerly India). He studied at Oxford, and was an announcer on Radio Hong Kong while there on National Service (1956–7). He appeared in the BBC programme That Was the Week that Was (1962–3), presented The Late Show (1978), and has narrated on many documentaries. His non-fiction work includes The Complete Murders of the Black Museum (1995). He has also written several plays for stage, radio, and television, but is most widely known for his role as a newscaster with ITN (1965–77) and TV-AM (1985–9).

Ronald Gordon Honeycombe (born September 27, 1936) is an author, playwright and stage actor, well known in the United Kingdom as a national television newscaster. Returning to the UK, he embarked on an acting career which led to television and public prominence as a national newscaster.

He has now settled in Perth, Western Australia, where he continues to work for radio, TV and the theatre. From 1977 to 1984, he concentrated on writing, while continuing many other activities, such as presenting TV shows for Scottish Television, Southern Television and for the BBC. He was voted the most popular male TV newscaster by readers of Woman's Own magazine in 1986, and received the Television and Radio Industries Club Newscaster of the Year Award in 1989. While appearing on British television, he also recorded voice-overs or narrations of many TV and other documentaries, training films, commercials and cinema shorts, and has been involved in many industrial presentations, conferences, in-house videos and fund-raising charity events.

Appearances

Beside the appearances listed below, he also presented, appeared in and narrated many TV programmes and appeared in many TV plays and series. (1991) The Fourth Protocol (1987) The Medusa Touch (1978) Neither the Sea nor the Sand (1974) Let's get Skase (2000)

British Stage

Suspects, in 1989 at Swansea Run for Your Wife, in 1990 touring with Les Dawson Aladdin in 1989-90 at the Wimbledon Theatre, with Cilla Black Aladdin in 1990-91 at the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth, with Su Pollard.

Australian stage

Taming of the Shrew

Works

Since 1965 Gordon Honeycombe, beside his own books, has written for television, radio, stage and films.

Books

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1969) Dragon Under the Hill (1972) Adam's Tale (1974) Red Watch (1976) Royal Wedding (1981) Nagasaki 1945 (1981) The Edge of Heaven (1981) The Year of the Princess (1982) The Murders of the Black Museum (1982) Selfridges (1984) The TV-AM Celebration of the Royal Wedding (1986) Siren Song (1992) More Murders of the Black Museum (1995) The Complete Murders of the Black Museum (1995)

Stage and radio dramatisations

The Redemption Lancelot and Guinevere Paradise Lost

TV plays

The Golden Vision (BBC1, 1968), Time and Again (Westward Television, 1974) The Thirteenth Day of Christmas (Granada Television, 1985)

Musical adaptation

The Princess and the Goblins (both book and lyrics: staged in 1994)

Stage play

The Redemption