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Ros’ Rainbow Coloured Voice Hits the Airwaves
words | Jemma Rocca
I caught up with the lovely Ros Astengo just as she came off air from her new radio show. She greeted me with a big smile which conveys that she adores her new job as a radio host for Radio Gibraltar. It’s non-stop for Ros though as she rushed off to make-up for the news bulletin which was due to go live in just 10 minutes. Just another frantic Friday night for Ros who admits her love of big stories and the adrenaline they bring keeps her interested and on form to broadcast news to Gibraltar on Newswatch, which is where you may have seen her before! We managed to squeeze five minutes, before she rushed off again to review the news script, and have a chat about her newest venture into radio and how different it is to anything else she’s ever done. Ros says it was her love of reading from a very young age that sparked her love for acting and reading scripts. After a spell in the banking world she applied and was accepted into London’s Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, where she studied voice and drama.
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Determined and ambitious, Ros graduated from drama school and began working hard, producing and starring in a Theatre-in-Education tour for schools where she earned her Equity card and immediately set off working in London as a professional actress and voice over actress. Ros participated in all kinds of productions from theatre to corporate films, and cartoons to educational DVDs. She spent 12 years working in various productions including BBC and Channel 4, Matinee Sound and Vision, she even worked on a short film which was selected for Best of British Film Festival. With an impressive and such wideranging resume like Ros’ there was only one territory left uncovered... radio! On moving to Gibraltar in 2000, experience was definitely on her side when she applied to our very own GBC television where she knew there was no acting work but they offered her her own cake baking show called Sweet Somethings. Combining her love of presenting with baking gave Ros the chance to showcase her skills to Gibraltar. Ros soon began working in many presenting and production jobs with GBC, as well as becoming a regular and valued GBC news presenter after then moving on to marketing PR at one of Gibraltar’s most prestigious locations, Ocean Village. It was a job which well suited bubbly, outgoing Ros who says she thoroughly enjoyed working at Ocean Village and admits it was a tough decision to leave after being offered a regular show on Radio Gibraltar.
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