Editing Vernon Corea (section)

{{short description|Sri Lankan-British radio broadcaster}}
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{{Infobox presenter
|name        = Vernon Corea
|image       = Vernoncoreaphotos_032.jpg
|caption     =  
|birth_name  = Hector Vernon Ivan Corea
|birth_date  = {{birth date |df=yes|1927|09|11}}
|birth_place = [[Kurana, Sri Lanka|Kurana]], Sri Lanka
|death_date  = {{death date and age|df=yes|2002|09|23|1927|09|11}}
|death_place = [[New Malden]], [[Kingston upon Thames]], [[England]]
|show        = Ponds Hit Parade
|station     = [[Radio Ceylon]]
|timeslot    = 7 p.m. Weekdays
|show2       = [[London Sounds Eastern]]
|station2    = [[BBC Radio London]]
|timeslot2   = 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Sundays
|style       = Eastern Music Show Host
|country     = United Kingdom
|website     = 
|}}

'''Vernon Corea''' (11 September 1927 – 23 September 2002) was a pioneer radio broadcaster with 45 years of public service broadcasting both in Sri Lanka and the UK. He joined [[Radio Ceylon]], South Asia's oldest radio station, in 1956 and later the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. During his time he presented some of the most popular radio shows in South Asia, including ''The Maliban Show'', ''Dial-a-Disc'', ''Holiday Choice'', ''Two For the Money'', ''Take It Or Leave It'', ''Saturday Stars'', ''To Each His Own'', ''Kiddies Corner'', and ''Old Folks at Home''.<ref name="Saturday Stars ">{{cite web |title=Vernon Corea by Neville Jayaweera, (former Director-General, SLBC) |url=http://www.vernoncorea.com/|access-date=4 September 2008}}</ref> He was well known not only in Sri Lanka, but right across the Indian Sub-Continent from the late 1950s to the 1970s – this was in the heyday of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.<ref name="broadcaster">{{cite web|title=The Golden Voice of Radio Ceylon|url=https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2004/07/18/fea20.html|access-date=4 September 2008|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216183222/http://sundayobserver.lk/2004/07/18/fea20.html|archive-date=16 February 2009}}</ref>