Overview
- BBC Radio Tees announced Friday that Dave Llewellyn died at 57 after a short illness.
- He became the region’s traffic and travel voice for more than 20 years, delivering up to 12 bulletins an hour from the BBC studio in Middlesbrough.
- In recent years he worked as a producer, most recently on Gary Philipson’s daytime show, and he also co-presented a Sunday morning gardening program with Brigid Press.
- He launched his career as Teesside’s “eye in the sky,” providing aerial traffic reports, and later lived in Yarm with his wife, Ange, and their daughter, Amy.
- Tributes cited his warmth and iconic voice, with daughter Amy calling him “incredibly modest and generous,” colleagues Amy Oakden and Sarah Robinson remembering him on air, and volunteer group Bloodrun EVS praising him as “a comforting voice to many.”