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Radio Lives
''Radio Lives'' was a long running BBC Radio 4 biographical series consisting of portraits of great radio figures. Running over seven series from 1990–96, each episode featured a personality who was influential either on the air or behind the scenes, and was presented by someone with a keen interest in their subject. The programmes demonstrated a striking range of subjects as varied as Edward R. Murrow (the voice of Britain for an American radio audience at the height of the London blitz) to Kenneth Williams, and William Hardcastle (broadcaster), William Hardcastle (inaugural presenter of The World at One) to Nancy Spain (socialite). Presenters have included Patricia Routledge, Charles Kennedy, Mark Lawson and Humphrey Carpenter. Programmes Series 1, 19 July – 23 August 1990 Series 2, 23 May – 20 June 1991 Series 3, 6 August – 10 September 1992 Series 4, 27 May – 1 July 1993 Series 5, 9 June – 14 July 1994 Series 6, 29 June – 3 August 1995 Series 7, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. The station controller is Mohit Bakaya. Broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on FM, LW and DAB, and on BBC Sounds, it can be received in the eastern counties of Ireland, northern France and Northern Europe. It is available on Freeview, Sky, and Virgin Media. Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it the UK's second most-popular radio station after Radio 2. BBC Radio 4 broadcasts news programmes such as ''Today'' and ''The World at One'', heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal pips or the chimes of Big Ben. The pips are only accurate on FM, LW, and MW; there is a delay on digital radio of three to five seconds and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Handley
Thomas Reginald Handley (17 January 1892 – 9 January 1949) was an English comedian, best known for the BBC radio programme ''It's That Man Again'' ("''ITMA''") which ran between 1939 and 1949. Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, Handley went on the stage in his teens and after military service in the First World War he established himself as a comedian and singer on the music hall circuit. He became nationally known as a pioneer broadcaster. From 1924 onwards he was frequently heard on BBC variety programmes as a solo entertainer and an actor in sketches. In the 1930s Handley frequently performed on air with the comedian Ronald Frankau in a popular comedy act as " Mr Murgatroyd and Mr Winterbottom". Handley's greatest success came in 1939 with the BBC radio comedy show ''It's That Man Again'', which, after an uncertain start, caught the British public's imagination and reached an unprecedentedly large audience. He starred as the good-natured, fast-talking anchor-man around whom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter White (broadcaster)
Peter White MBE (born 1947, Winchester) is a visually impaired British broadcast journalist and DJ. Broadcasting career Blind since birth (as was his elder brother), he attended New College Worcester, which was then known as the Worcester College for the Blind. He was a regular presenter on BBC Radio Solent from the station's launch in 1971 until November 2006, when he was downsized. He currently presents (with others) ''You and Yours'' and (since 1974) '' In Touch'' (both BBC Radio 4), a programme for blind and partially sighted people, and regularly contributes to other science, news or educational programmes to talk about disabilities. He was the presenter of Channel 4's ''Same Difference'' (1987–1989) and Central Television's ''Link'' (1989–1991). He was made the BBC's Disability Affairs Correspondent in 1995. He was part of the reporting team for BBC News at the 2008 Beijing games. A column by White for ''The Guardian'' 'G2' magazine which appeared on 8 September 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Cutforth
René Cutforth (6 February 1909 - 1 April 1984) was a British journalist, television and radio broadcaster and writer. Early life Reynolds Cutforth was born at Swadlincote, Derbyshire on 6 February 1909, and spent his childhood in Woodville, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire. He received his formal educated at Denstone College, which he entered in September 1922. His first job was a clerk with the Midland Bank. In World War II he saw active service as a commissioned officer with the British Army in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and fought in the Western Desert Campaign, where he was taken prisoner of war in 1941, spending the remainder of the war in prisoner of war camps in Italy and Germany, Broadcasting career He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation on return to England in 1946, and became a well known broadcaster and travelled the world as a BBC correspondent. He reported on the Korean War. During his television broadcast career he wrote and produced several documentary series, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Farrell
Nigel George Farrell, born on 22 January 1953 in London, died 24 September 2011, was a television documentary film-maker who was a pioneer in what has been termed 'docu-soaps'. He initially followed his father into medicine, but soon entered the world of television via local journalism. He worked on programmes such as South Today and Breakfast Time, and on BBC Radio 4 appeared on Ned Sherrin’s Saturday evening show Loose Ends. He will primarily be remembered for a 50-programme Radio 4 series called The Village (which went on to become a ''television series''); three series of ''Country House'' set at Woburn Abbey, ''An Island Parish'', which evolved from '' A Country Parish'', launched in 2001 on BBC Two and a series on Channel 4 called ''A Place In France''. Bibliography Farrell wrote several books based on his experiences and as tie-ins for his television series'. * ''TV & Radio: Everybody's Soapbox'' (1983) with Bruce Parker, Blandford Press * ''Smile It’s Only Televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Edwards
James Keith O'Neill Edwards, DFC (23 March 19207 July 1988) was an English comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''Take It from Here'' and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in ''Whack-O!''. Early life Edwards was born in Barnes, Surrey, the son of a professor of mathematics. He had four brothers and four sisters. He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, at King's College School in Wimbledon and as a choral scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, where he sang in the college choir. Second World War Edwards served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, was commissioned in April 1942, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and ended the war as a flight lieutenant. He served with No. 271 Squadron RAF, based in Doncaster, who took part in the D-Day landings. His Dakota was shot down at Arnhem in 1944, resulting in facial injuries requiring plastic surgery, that he disguised with a large handlebar moustache that b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alasdair Milne
Alasdair David Gordon Milne (8 October 19308 January 2013) was a British television producer and executive. He had a long career at the BBC, where he was eventually promoted to Director-General, and was described by ''The Independent'' as "one of the most original and talented programme-makers to emerge during television's formative years". In his early career, Milne was a BBC producer and was involved in founding the current affairs series ''Tonight'' in 1957. Later, after a period outside the BBC, he became controller of BBC Scotland and BBC Television's director of programmes. He served as Director-General of the BBC between July 1982 and January 1987, when he was forced to resign from his post by the BBC Governors following several difficult years for the BBC, which included sustained pressure from the Thatcher government about editorial decisions which had proved controversial. Early life Milne was born in British India to Charles Gordon Shaw Milne, an Aberdonian surgeon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Greene
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British television executive and journalist. He was director-general of the BBC from 1960 to 1969. After working for newspapers in the 1930s, Greene spent most of his later career with the BBC, rising through the managerial ranks of overseas broadcasting and then news for the main domestic channels. He encountered opposition from some politicians and activists opposed to his modernising agenda, but under his leadership the BBC was recognised to be outperforming its commercial rival, ITV, and was awarded a second television channel (BBC 2) by the British government and authorised to introduce colour television to Britain. After retiring from the BBC, Greene published several books, including a collaboration with his brother, the novelist Graham Greene, and made television programmes both for the BBC and its commercial rival. Background Greene was born on 15 November 1910 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Street
Sean Street (born 2 June 1946, Waterlooville, Hampshire) is a writer, poet, broadcaster. and Britain's first Professor of Radio. He retired from full-time academic life in 2011 and was awarded an Emeritus Professorship by Bournemouth University. He continues to write and broadcast. He is also a Life Fellow of the . Acting He trained as an actor at the (1964–67), and spent a year in Paris, France bef ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roisin McAuley
Roisin McAuley is a BBC Radio Ulster and currently presents Sunday Sequence. Biography She grew up in Cookstown in County Tyrone went to a convent boarding school, and then to Queen's University Belfast to study history. She joined BBC Northern Ireland in 1969 and was the broadcaster's first Catholic female newsreader and announcer. She went on to become a reporter for BBC programmes such as ''Spotlight'', ''Newsnight'', ''Panorama (TV series), Panorama'' and ''File on 4''. She has also produced and directed television documentaries for ITV Network, ITV and Channel 4 and written and presented programmes on BBC Radio 3 and 4. McAuley's first two novels, ''Singing Bird'' and ''Meeting Point'', were sold at auction to Headline (world rights) who published in 2004 and 2005. The US rights sold to HarperCollins, Dutch rights to House of Books and the German rights to Droemer. The rights to Roisin McAuley's next two books, "Finding Home" and "French Secrets" were sold to Time Warner Boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Russell
Muriel Audrey Russell, (29 June 1906 – 8 August 1989) was a BBC Radio journalist (then called a "commentator"), the BBC's first female news reporter, and, in 1944, the first accredited female war reporter. Russell was born in Dublin on 29 June 1906, to Muriel (née Metcalfe) and John Strangman Russell. Her father was director of his family's woollen mill. She was their only child. Her maternal uncle was E. Dudley "Fruity" Metcalfe, a close friend of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII). She was home-educated governesses, before attending a private boarding-school called Southlands, at Harrow. She then went to a finishing school at the Villa St Georges, Neuilly, Paris. After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, she became an actress (her stage debut was at the Lyric in London in 1937) and stage manager, and joined the BBC in 1942 after being discovered by them when interviewed about her wartime work for the National Fire Service. She travelled to main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Lustgarten
Edgar Marcus Lustgarten (3 May 1907 – 15 December 1978) was a British broadcaster and noted crime writer. Biography Born in the Broughton Park area of Salford, Lancashire, he was the son of Joseph and Sara (née Finklestein) Lustgarten. His father was a Romanian-Jewish barrister. Lustgarten was educated at Manchester Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford. He was President of the Oxford Union for the Hilary term of 1930. His years at the bar—he was a practising barrister, 1930–40—provided the background to his crime novels and his studies in true crime. In 1932 he married Joyce Goldstone in Manchester. She came from a family of jewellers. She died in 1972. There was no issue. During the Second World War he was medically unfit for active service but worked in Radio Counter-Propaganda (1940–45), under the name of 'Brent Wood'. He was a BBC staff producer, 1945–48, and organiser of the BBC television programme ''In the News'' (1950–54) and of the ATV prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
