[1] He then moved to New Zealand and started a career as an actor, but began working for NZBC news, reading and general announcing on television and radio.
After returning to London in 1965, he spent a period at Radio Luxembourg and on the BBC Light Programme where he presented shows including Easy Beat and Breakfast Special.
[1][2] Symonds was the last person to interview Gene Vincent on his Radio 1 show, Scene and Heard, broadcast on 16 October 1971.
[citation needed] Symonds resigned from Radio 1 in 1973 over a dissatisfaction with the music policy and after the introduction of a new jingle.
I couldn't press the button with a clear conscience," he told his granddaughter, journalist Cara McGoogan, for a Daily Telegraph profile in 2017.