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Tom Browne (born on armistice day 1945) is a British broadcaster and actor, born in Lymington, Hampshire, and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon. As an actor, he graduated from RADA. He began his radio broadcasting career in Denmark in 1965, and in 1972 was unexpectedly chosen to succeed Alan Freeman as presenter of the BBC Radio 1 Sunday afternoon chart show. He presented this show from October 1 1972 to March 26 1978 - initially it was a three-hour show called "Solid Gold Sixty" but from the spring of 1974 onwards it was shortened to a one-hour Top 20 rundown. This would be the only show he ever presented on Radio 1, and he never showed any sign of crossing over to television, for example via Top of the Pops. His smooth style and Received Pronunciation voice (becoming more noticeable in later years; initially he had tried to sound more like a 1970s pop radio DJ) were unusual for Radio 1 even then, and would be utterly unthinkable now.

After leaving Radio 1 he would broadcast for BBC Radio 2 in the early 1980s, provide the voiceover for many TV and radio adverts, and continue his acting career, notably appearing in Emmerdale Farm (as it was then called). He subsequently became a newsreader for BBC World television and then moved to Hong Kong, where he became a popular broadcaster in the final years of British rule; he was still living there in December 1999, nearly two and a half years after it had been handed back to China, but no information on Browne's whereabouts from the 2000s appears to be forthcoming on the internet.

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