Radio who's who (1947)

404 RADIO WHO'S WHO RICHARDS, DICK. Radio and Entertainments Correspondent, Sunday Pictorial, b. Goodmayes, Essex, 14th March, 191 1. Address: Sunday Pictorial, Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, E.C.4. Phone : Holborn 4321 (Office) ; Seven Kings 7286 (Home). Has been entertainments journalist since 1928, specialising in films, theatre and radio. Was assistant editor of " Radio Pictorial " until joining Sunday Pictorial in present capacity. Served in army, 1940-46, during which time he did occasional talks and record programmes and contributed three complete "Ack-Ack, Beer-Beer " programmes to the B.B.C. Was transferred, with the rank of captain, from R.A. to Army Broadcasting Service, C.M.F. There he served under Lt.-Col. Gale Pedrick and ran British Forces' Radio Stations at Naples, Riccione and Milan. For the A.B.S. did over five hundred broadcasts, including quizzes, talks, plays, sports commentaries, variety shows and record programmes. Is now working on ideas for television, variety and drama programmes, but " finds the ' getting in ' ridiculously difficult." SACKVILLE-WEST, EDWARD CHARLES (Hon.). Radio Critic, " New Statesman and Nation." b. London, 13th November, 190 1. Address : Long Crichel House, Wimborne, Dorset. Phone : Tarrant Hinton 250. Educated Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Has written five novels and a biography of Thomas de Quincey. Was assistant literary editor of the " New Statesman and Nation," 1926-27, and again in 1945. Since January, 1945, has written a weekly radio column in this paper. For many years has made frequent literary and musical contributions to various journals. Spent two years as Features Producer in the B.B.C, during which time he was in charge of most of the poetry broadcasts ; wrote and /or produced (in collaboration with Stephen Potter) a number of literary features. His most important work in this field was a radio drama entitled " The Rescue," which was broadcast (with special music by Benjamin Britten) in November, 1943. Clubs : Brooks's, Savile, SEAR, HAROLD GEORGE. Radio Critic and Editor of " Keynote." b. Birmingham, 21st November, 1887. Is a prolific contributor to many music papers and magazines. Address : 40, Hillbury Avenue, Kenton, Middlesex. Phone : Wordsworth 2350. Learned piano at home at an early age and afterwards studied theory, etc., at the Midland Institute, Birmingham. Through writing programme notes for Birmingham's New Philharmonic Society was invited to become second critic of the Birmingham Post. Contributed long series called " The Men Behind the Music " to the Birmingham Town Crier, and was subsequently invited by Hamilton Fyfe to do a weekly article for the Daily Herald, on which paper he was critic from about 1922-29. Among the papers for which he writes are " Monthly Musical Record " ; " Music and Letters " ; " Music Review " ; " Musical Times " ; and " Musical Opinion. Is Music Editor, " Our Time " ; Editor of the bulletin of the Workers' Music Society, " Vox Pop " ; Music critic of the Daily Worker ; and Editor of " Keynote." Is the author of " The Composer must Live," and " Talking of Music." SHARP, FRANCIS RICHARD. Radio Critic, Nottingham Evening Post since 1922. Address : 29, Wharnside Road, Woodthorpe, Nottingham. Born in Bristol and has been associated with journalism since he joined the Bristol Echo. Later was with the " Grantham Journal," and finally the Nottingham Evening Post. Of the latter, he is now the Chief Sub-Editor. Became this paper's radio critic in mid-1922, just before the B.B.C. started broadcasting, and now writes a regular weekly column dealing with general radio information, criticism and solutions to readers' posers. SONIN, RAY. Editor, " Melody Maker," scriptwriter and radio journalist, b. London, 23rd June, 1907. Address : 6, Orme Court, London, W.2. Phone : Bayswater 6826. Educated King Edward VI High School, Birmingham. Ambition from the moment he could hold