[1] Born in Edinburgh in 1936,[2] as a baby he was paralysed with polio and he spent a large part of his childhood in hospital.
[2] Gordon also worked as a freelance voice artist, recording voice-overs and commenting on company videos.
[4] He also recorded a sequence of fictional football results to introduce each scene in performances of Tom Wells' 2013 play, Jumpers for Goalposts.
[5][6][7] He announced his retirement from radio in July 2013 following surgery to remove his larynx after being diagnosed with cancer which rendered his voice too weak for broadcasting.
[8] He was succeeded as the reader of the classified football results by former Radio 4 newsreader Charlotte Green from late September 2013.