Gerald Beadle
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| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | radio announcer, administrator |
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Sir Gerald Clayton Beadle CBE (17 April 1899 – 6 November 1976) was a British announcer and administrator for BBC Radio, and later Director of BBC Television.
Life
Beadle was born on 17 April 1899 in Belvedere, Kent, to Clayton Beadle (1868–1917), a chemist, and Helen Pears Beadle.[1][2][3] In 1891 his father, with Charles Frederick Cross and Edward John Bevan developed Viscose, the first manufacture of a synthetic fiber.
He joined the BBC in 1923, as a radio announcer. He left in 1924 and rejoined in 1926 as station director in Belfast.[3] He moved to the television team in 1936.[4] He was instrumental in establishing the BBC's Television Centre, in London.[4]
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1951 New Year Honours[5] and made a Knight Bachelor in the 1961 New Year Honours.[4]
He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 30 October 1961.[6]
His portrait, a 1961 photograph by Walter Bird, is in the National Portrait Gallery.[7]
He died on 6 November 1976, in Bath.[3][8]
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.—— (1963). Television: a critical review. George Allen and Unwin.
References
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- ^ Bexley, Kent, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1925
- ^ 1911 England Census
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Doctor, Jennifer Ruth (1999). The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes. Cambridge University Press. p. 391. ISBN 9780521661171.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cactus Pryor Interviews Sir Gerald Beadle". Cactus Pryor Show. 23 November 1961. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.[Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". "No. 39104"]. The London Gazette (Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".). 29 December 1950. p. Script error: No such module "London Gazette util"..
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."National Portrait Gallery - Portrait - NPG x163970; Sir Gerald Clayton Beadle". Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
External links
- Cactus Pryor Interviews Sir Gerald Beadle Video of 1961 TV programme, with Cactus Pryor
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