Gillian Reynolds

Who is Gillian Reynolds?

Gillian Reynolds MBE, née Morton is a British radio critic, journalist and broadcaster. The daughter of market traders in Liverpool, she was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford University.

Radio critic of The Daily Telegraph since 1975, she previously held the same post at The Guardian for seven years from 1967. In between these two jobs she was the first Programme controller of Radio City in Liverpool in 1974. More recently, Reynolds was involved in the group organising the events in Liverpool while the city was European City of Culture in 2008.

Reynolds is a Fellow of The Radio Academy, a trustee of the National Museum in Liverpool, a Fellow of the Royal Television Society and an Honorary Fellow of her old Oxford college, St Anne's. Until January 2009, she chaired the Charles Parker Archive Trust at Birmingham Central Library. She is also a member of the Trustee Advisory Board of the National Media Museum in Bradford.

Gillian Reynolds was awarded the MBE in 1999.