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Allan Lee

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  • Radio and Digital Producer, SBS
  • Director, StormyDog Productions
Sydney, Woolgoolga
Covers:  General News
Radio and Digital producer, SBS News, Sydney. Views are my own, such as they are.

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I trained as an engineer but moved into production in the 1980s, starting by presenting a news magazine programme on commercial radio in Britain, joining the BBC, then emigrating to New Zealand where I was chief sub for Newstalk ZB for 12 happy years; I left to set up a TV news bulletin for Shine TV. During the time I set up an independent TV production company with my wife, and produced programmes that have been shown all over the world. In 2014 we moved to Australia to work on providing a fam…

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