Gillian Reynolds MBE, née Morton (born 1935 in Liverpool) is a British radio critic, journalist and broadcaster. The daughter of market traders in Liverpool, she was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford University.

Radio critic of The Daily Telegraph

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since 1975, she previously held the same post at The Guardian

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for seven years from 1967. In between these two jobs she was the first Programme controller of Radio City

Radio City 96.7

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 in Liverpool in 1974. More recently, Reynolds was involved in the group organising the events in Liverpool while the city was European City of Culture in 2008.

Reynolds is a Fellow of The Radio Academy

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, a trustee of the National Museum in Liverpool, a Fellow of the Royal Television Society

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 and an Honorary Fellow of her old Oxford college, St Anne's. Until January 2009, she chaired the Charles Parker Archive Trust at Birmingham Central Library. She is also a member of the Trustee Advisory Board of the National Media Museum in Bradford.

Gillian Reynolds was awarded the MBE in 1999.