John Ebdon
For the cricketer, see John Ebdon (cricketer).
John Ebdon (1923–2005) was a British author, broadcaster, Graecophile and director of the London Planetarium. He was born on 22 December 1923,[1] educated at Blundell's School and died in March 2005.[2] On his death, obituaries appeared in the Times, Independent, Guardian and Telegraph newspapers and on the BBC.[3]
Ebdon presented Archive Feature on the Home Service and Radio 4 from 1961 to 1987. He also presented the archive-based Nonsense at Noon on the Home Service, 1965-66. "His facetious patrician tones every third Monday morning, his sense of the absurd, his ear for a word mistakenly taken out of context, his famous cat Perseus, delighted much of middle England as much as it infuriated a small minority."--Glyn Worsnip.[4]
References
- Ebdon, J. (1985), Ebdon's England, David & Charles, ISBN 0-7153-8595-X (including covers)
- BBC (2005), Radio 4 presenter John Ebdon dies,
Further reading
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