Michael Collie is a British television and radio presenter who appears on BBC News.
15 Facts About Michael Collie
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Michael Collie is a former presenter of the weekly politics programme, the Politics Show, in addition to his work presenting BBC Midlands Today, produced by the BBC's West Midlands region.
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Michael Collie began his full-time broadcasting career on BBC WM as the early morning newsreader.
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Michael Collie has worked as a newsreader on BBC Radio 2.
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Michael Collie was the presenter of BBC2's "Paddles Up" canoeing series, and appeared as a model on BBC1's "The Clothes Show".
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Michael Collie's voice has appeared across the BBC1 network, including on "Telly Addicts" and "The Day on BBC One".
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Michael Collie is a former presenter of the Politics Show in the West Midlands, and prior to that "The Midlands at Westminster".
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Away from broadcasting, Michael Collie has scripted and hosted concerts for the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham.
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Michael Collie has worked with other music ensembles, including Birmingham Symphonic Winds.
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Michael Collie went to school in Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
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Michael Collie studied Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham in the early 1980s.
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Michael Collie now has 4 children; Charlotte, Emily, Brittany and Heidi.
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Michael Collie is an Ambassador for Girlguiding UK in Birmingham and Patron of two charities: Side by Side Theatre Company and Wings, both charities for people with learning or development difficulties.
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Michael Collie is a vice-president of the Gentlemen Songsters Male Voice Choir, a local Patron of Fairtrade and in 2011 was made Honorary Colonel of the Warwickshire and West Midlands Army Cadet Force.
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Michael Collie was awarded the TD in 2005 and the VRSM in 2015.