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Laurie Mayer

Laurie Mayer is credited on 213 releases across 58 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1983–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Laurie Mayer is a British journalist who had a 22-year career with the BBC on radio and across most television news programmes. His last main presenting role was of South East Today for BBC News, until he left abruptly in 2002, citing a culture of bullying at the BBC in the South East News department. The BBC won an ensuing employment tribunal. Mayer appealed and lost. Since leaving, Mayer has stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Democrat candidate on Suffolk County Council and campaigned against a number of local planning proposals for housing and amenities in Suffolk and Oxfordshire. Mayer's radio career started on BBC Radio London in 1971, mainly presenting the station's breakfast show "Rush Hour". Between 1973 and 1979, he was one of the presenters on the BBC Radio 1 news programme Newsbeat. Mayer was a presenter of the BBC's News After Noon, Six O'Clock News and Breakfast News programme (now known as Breakfast), before leaving for Sky News in the early 1990s. He went on to become the press spokesman for the owner of Harrods, Mohammed Al Fayed, before returning to the BBC as the main presenter of South East Today, walking out abruptly when his one year contract was not renewed. Mayer also narrated every episode of the ITV emergency services documentary Blues and Twos from 1993 to 1998.

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