Radio who's who (1947)

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RADIO WHO'S WHO 33 BERRY, ERIC. Actor. 6. London, 9th January, 1913. Has broadcast in radio plays since 1931. Address: 36, Prentis Road, London, S.W.16. Phone: Streatham 0978. Trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then took the juvenile lead at the Embassy Theatre in 1932. Had repertory experience at Hull, Croydon, Bristol and Chatham. Has made many West End appearances since his first radio part in Julius ERIC BERRY Caesar from Savoy Hill in 1931. Recently televised (Exercise Bowler). During the war broadcast for the Egyptian State Broadcasting from Cairo, 1945-46, after two years with the Royal West African Frontier Force. Also served in Egypt, Palestine, Cyrenaica and Tripolitania. BETJEMAN, JOHN. Author, critic, talks, b. London, 1906. First connected with radio in 1928. Address: c/o John Murray, Albemarle Street, W.l. Best known for his talks on architecture and poetry. Writer of " Daily Herald " book column, etc, BEVANS, JOHN WILLIAM. Compere and talks, b. Portsmouth. 3rd February, 1892. Best known for " The Records' I Take to the War " programmes. Address: 15, Copnor Road, Portsmouth. Phone: Portsmouth 73440. First broadcast from Iceland, subsequently from North Africa (French and American Stations) and B.B.C. Realised a life's ambition by serving with all three fighting forces. Has given talks, compered gramophone recitals and services broadcasts. Hobbies: Sailing and painting and making them pay. BEVERIDGE, WILLIAM HENRY (Lord). Talks and discussions. b. Rangpur, 5th March, 1879 Best known for the Beveridge Report on Social Security and in radio as a member of the Brain? Trust. Address: Tuggal Hall, Chathill, Northumberland. Phone: Chathill 33. Educated Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1903 obtained post as Sub-warden of Toynbee Hall at £200 a year, and he says, no prospects. Then became Leader-writer on the " Morning Post" 1905-08; Civil Servant, 1908-19, when he was given first job by Winston Churchill at the Board of Trade; Director of London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, 1919-37 (obtained from the Rockefeller Foundation $2,000,00 to buv the Bloomsbury site for the University, and the ' Beveridge Hall ' in the University building — occupied by journalists of all nations during World War II — commemorates this); started Academic Assistance Council in 1933 to rescue academics from Hitler's persecution; Master of Universfty College, Oxford, 1937-45; Chairman of Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee, 1935-44; gave up these two posts to become M.P. for Berwick-upon-Tweed, October, 1944, to June, 1945, and being defeated in the General Election says he is now without a profession except that of author. Has written many books on his own account and in the first war invented a submarine