Aidan Browne (b. Belfast) [1] is a Northern Irish television presenter and actor.
Browne has been a freelance continuity announcer and newsreader at UTV since 1993. [1] He also contributes regularly to Ivan Martin's Sunday Brunch programme on U105 discussing television programmes for the week ahead. [2]
As well as his announcing role, Browne is a senior lecturer in Performing Arts at the Belfast Metropolitan College (formerly the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education). [3] He is also involved with Youth Lyric; as a tutor since 1986 and as Director of the group since 1993. [3]
Browne previously studied at Lancaster University, the University of Ulster, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. [3] He is married and has two children. [1]
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