John Snagge information

John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge OBE (8 May 1904 – 25 March 1996) was a British newsreader and commentator on BBC Radio. Born in Chelsea, London, Snagge was...

original announcer Andrew Timothy was replaced (at the suggestion of John Snagge) by Wallace Greenslade,:127 who provided spoken narrative links as well...

29 December 1958 John Browell Spike Milligan 10 "Ned's Atomic Dustbin" 5 January 1959 John Browell Spike Milligan with John Snagge (pre-recorded) 11...

followed by the customary Television Newsreel with a recorded commentary by John Snagge (and on other occasions by Andrew Timothy).[citation needed] On-screen...

economist Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, writer on Islamic history John Snagge, Second World War BBC announcer Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, ambassador...

Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978) May 8 – John Snagge, British radio personality (died 1996) May 10 – James Roy Andersen, American...

Cemetery, Weybridge. At the subsequent memorial service, his BBC colleague John Snagge gave an address. Greenslade left a wife, Carol. A radio play, Ying Tong...

was not broken to the wider world until 11:15 am when BBC newsreader John Snagge read the words "It is with the greatest sorrow that we make the following...

contributed to political and economic output at the BBC World Service. John Snagge – radio newsreader and commentator from the 1920s to the 1960s. He died...

(d. 1994) 1903 – Fernandel, French actor and singer (d. 1971) 1904 – John Snagge, English journalist (d. 1996) 1905 – Red Nichols, American cornet player...

finish the film. Veteran wartime BBC radio announcers Alvar Lidell and John Snagge gave their services free to voice reconstructed newsreels and radio broadcasts...

Sir Thomas Mordaunt Snagge (1868–1955), knighted 1931. Their son was the British newsreader and commentator on BBC Radio John Snagge (1904–1996). "The Navy...

(died 1972) 6 May – Max Mallowan, archaeologist (died 1978) 8 May – John Snagge, radio personality (died 1996) 20 May – Margery Allingham, writer (died...

Peer. The House was sold by Lord Bernstein circa 1985.[citation needed] John Snagge, the wartime broadcaster, lived at "Little Fellows" during the wartime...

Soviet actor and theater director; in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1972) John Snagge, British radio personality; in Chelsea, London, England (d. 1996) Died:...

responding that "his trombone was stuck in his tartan down in Bournemouth". John Snagge – doyen of BBC newsreaders who, like Greenslade, also played himself...

engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (b. 1912) 1996 – John Snagge, English journalist (b. 1904) 2000 – Alex Comfort, English physician...

(born 1934) 22 March – Ron Hayward, politician (born 1917) 25 March – John Snagge, radio personality (born 1904) 29 March – Gordon Pask, psychologist (born...

Greenslade Story", after Neddie exclaims to John Snagge, "Not so fast, Mr John Boat Race Snagge!", Snagge dryly remarks "That voice came out of a little...

of 30 years; his guardian was the BBC radio and television announcer John Snagge, according to a newspaper report of Wally's death. Wally's funeral was...

Maurice Edelston, Peter West and Alan Clarke, with the quiz hosted by John Snagge. In 1966 Luton Grammar School became the first Sixth Form College in...