Greg Roskowski was an announcer of Radio Ceylon during the height of the station's popularity in the 1950s in the Indian Subcontinent.
Hotel Nippon has one of the earliest oriental restaurants and it exists to this day, in downtown Colombo.
According to one-time radio colleague Jimmy Bharucha, Greg Roskowski used to receive fan mail of over 500 letters a day.
Listeners to Radio Ceylon enjoyed his 'wakey wakey' style and he introduced the hit songs of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior, Bill Haley & His Comets, Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley to audiences in Ceylon and beyond.
Greg Roskowski was one of a handful of 'overseas announcers' working for Radio Ceylon in the 1950s and 1960s when the station ruled the airwaves in the Indian Subcontinent;[1] the others being the American Craig Thompson who co-presented the Kiddies Corner, a program for children and Ameen Syani from India, who presented Binaca Geet Mala, a program of Indian filmi music.