Jon Briggs

Jon Briggs (born January 24, 1965) was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. His work spans radio, TV, voice-over, training and conferences. He started in radio in 1981 as tea boy and progressed to the breakfast show with BBC Radio Oxford aged 19.

Briggs is the station voice of BBC Radio 2, From 2000 to 2012 he was known as the voice of the BBC quiz show, The Weakest Link. In 1996, he founded and is the managing director of London based talent agency, The Excellent Voice Company, marketing and representing vocal talents.

His journalism spans radio and television, mostly for the BBC although, he was a continuity announcer for Channel 4 for a while in the late eighties. Having worked as a reporter for BBC Radio 4 current affairs programmes, he went on to spend two years anchoring the breakfast news programme for BBC Radio 5 when the corporation launched its first new station for 23 years.

Having worked for LBC — London's oldest commercial station — in the mid-1990s, Briggs was asked to return under the tenure of ITN in 1999 to referee the weekly political debate on Sunday mornings, and in 2003 he finished three years working on a weekly review of London's entertainment scene every Saturday morning. He returned to the BBC in 2003 to work on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Briggs is a well-recognised conference moderator, having worked for many of the world's largest companies, including IBM, Canon, BT, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Deloitte & Touche and Ericsson.

Jon Briggs also provided the narration for the start of the drum and bass song "Blood Sugar" by Pendulum. He also provided his voice for text-to-speech software, including the British version of Siri, the personal assistant application for the Apple's iPhone 4S. His voice recordings for Siri were made 4 to 5 years before the iPhone 4S was released.

Famous quotes containing the words jon and/or briggs:

    The dog is mentioned in the Bible eighteen times—the cat not even once.
    —W.E. Farbstein. Quoted in “Hundkeit,” Mondo Canine, ed. Jon Winokur, Dutton (1991)

    Before I get through with you, you will have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife. Now, the first thing to do is arrange for a settlement. You take the children, your husband takes the house, Junior burns down the house, you take the insurance and I take you!
    S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, terms for a divorce settlement proposed while trying to woo Lucille Briggs (Thelma Todd)