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    2012
    10:41am, EDT

    Beryl and Betty, aged 86 and 90, scoop top radio award

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    Beryl Renwick and Betty Smith with Simon Reeves attend the Sony Radio Academy Awards 2012 recognizing national and regional radio stations at Grosvenor House in London, Monday night.

    By ITV News

    LONDON - In the entertainment world, youth and celebrity are usually the key to success…but a pair of radio hosts with a combined age of 176 have been awarded top prize at an industry ceremony in Britain.

    Beryl Renwick, 86, and Betty Smith, 90, were named Britain’s best radio entertainment hosts at the Sony Radio Academy Awards on Monday night.


    Their weekly broadcast on local Yorkshire station BBC Radio Humberside has been going for six years and gathered a cult following.

    Full story: ITV News

    The elderly pair chat with co-host David Reeves about fashion, the war and their love of Michael Buble.

    The judges said they were: “A joyous, entertaining double act. They give a voice to a sector of society unrepresented on radio, and do it with a joy that puts many of their fellow broadcasters to shame.

    You can see the pair discuss their nomination in this BBC website video from April.

    ITV News is the British broadcast partner of NBC.

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    Yeah, These to old birds are real entertainment... It's really refreshing radio, not trash radio...

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