Paul Coia
Biography
Paul Coia is a Scottish television presenter and continuity announcer, best known for being the first voice heard on Channel 4 when it launched in 1982. He has hosted various TV shows, including "Pebble Mill at One" and "Catchword", and currently works in radio and executive coaching.
Known For & Full Filmography6 Titles
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Self - Presenter
Sally James and guest presenters invite established stars and newcomers to contribute to a lively half-hour of music and conversation.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Self
In 1970s Glasgow, an unlikely friendship develops between a bereaved 11-year-old lad and the local bully.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Himself
Dale Winton narrates a compilation of disastrous game show moments. Featuring contestants on The Million Pound Drop failing to pay attention to a question with a fortune at stake, the least successful player to appear on The Chase, the woman who broke her leg on The Krypton Factor and still finished third, Catchphrase host Nick Weir damaging his career by falling down the stairs, and the Princess Diana-themed episode of Channel 5 quiz show 100%.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Narrator
Filmed from the Driver's cab of a class 385 EMU we travel on a ScotRail express from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High, then from Edinburgh to Glasgow Central via Shotts.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Self (archive footage)
How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain his role as the leader of a cult British underground band into its fifth decade? Comedian and writer Stewart Lee, director Michael Cumming and James Nicholls investigate the mysterious existence of Robert Lloyd, Britain’s ultimate post-punk survivor. Robert Lloyd’s Prefects played with The Clash on the White Riot tour in 1977, and their ongoing incarnation, as Birmingham’s Captain Beefheart suffused post-punk poets The Nightingales, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other band. Ever. But what were the social, cultural and economic circumstances that enabled and sustained such outsider artists in the punk and post-punk eras, and how has the world changed to the point where such figures are unlikely to flourish in the same way today? Lloyd’s own odyssey echoes how abstract notions of social mobility, of the value of culture and music, have changed in the last five decades.
Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Narrator
Dingwall to Wick and Thurso