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Anthony Joseph Shryane
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(20 January 1919 – 22 September 2003) was a long-serving producer of radio programmes for the
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. He was born in
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,
Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...
. He was the first producer of ''
The Archers ''The Archers'' is a BBC radio drama on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word channel. Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural settin ...
'', in which capacity he served for 28 years until his retirement in 1979. He also produced several popular panel games devised with
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, including ''Guilty Party'', ''
My Word! ''My Word!'' is a British radio quiz panel game broadcast by the BBC on the Home Service (1956–67) and Radio 4 (1967–88). It was created by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane, and featured the humorous writers Frank Muir and Denis Norden, k ...
'', and '' My Music''. In 1961, he was appointed
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for services to broadcasting. He continued working for the BBC on a freelance basis after his official retirement, finally retiring for good in 1984 after fifty years of service.


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BBC press release marking Shryane's deathTelegraph obituary
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