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On Your Behalf is a consumer affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster on Saturday mornings and repeated midweek in the evening. The programme, first broadcast in September 1995, [1] [2] offers advice to listeners' consumer problems and reports on the latest developments in consumer law and how these may affect their rights. [3] It is presented by Linda McAuley.

On Your Behalf won the Trading Standards Institute's 'Best Consumer Television or Radio Programme' award in 2006. The presenter Linda McAuley also won the 'Northern Ireland Consumer Journalist' category. [4]

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References

  1. "On Your Behalf:25 Years of Helping Listeners". BBC Radio Ulster. 19 September 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  2. "Many happy returns On Your Behalf". Belfast Telegraph. 19 September 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  3. "On Your Behalf". BBC Radio Ulster . Retrieved 18 May 2008.
  4. "BBC RADIO ULSTER'S "ON YOUR BEHALF SCOOPS TOP AWARD"". BBC Radio Ulster . Retrieved 18 May 2008.