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Jean Metcalfe
English radio broadcaster
Jean Metcalfe (2 March 1923 – 28 January 2000) was an English radio broadcaster.
Early life
[edit]Jean Metcalfe was the eldest child of Guy Vivian Metcalfe, a railway clerk with the Southern Railway at Waterloo station, and Gwendoline Annie, née Reed. Her family were a typical lower-middle-class family of the time. Their house had no bathroom and they used her father's Southern Railway privilege tickets to get them to their most ambitious holiday destination, Cornwall.
She excelled at elocution and art at the local county school, and formed a passionate love of the radio at home. She joined the Children's Hour radio circle, and entered competitions which entitled the winners to visit Broadcasting House, headquarters of the BBC. She excelled at school dramatics, and once played Queen Victoria.
Career
[edit]Leaving school in 1939, Metcalfe went to secretarial college and then applied for a job at the BBC in 1940. By bending the truth on her CV, inventing grandparents in Norfolk and describing her father's occupation as a "welfare officer", she succeeded in getting a job with the variety department, being paid £2 5s. 6d. (£2.271⁄2) a week. Her first broadcast was on 21 May 1941, reading the poem "Spring, the Sweet
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Cliff Michelmore
English television presenter (1919–2016)
Arthur Clifford MichelmoreCBE (11 December 1919 – 16 March 2016) was an English television presenter and producer.
He is best known for the BBC Television programme Tonight, which he presented from 1957 to 1965. He also hosted the BBC's television coverage of the Apollo Moon landings, the Aberfan disaster, the 1966 and 1970 UK general elections, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1969.
Early life
[edit]Michelmore was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, on 11 December 1919,[1] youngest of six children[2] of insurance agent and former prison officer, police constable, and groom servant (Albert) Herbert Michelmore and Ellen, daughter of labourer Richard Alford.[3][4] The Michelmores had moved to the Isle of Wight in hopes of relieving his father's tuberculosis. His father died when Michelmore was two years old, and he was raised- with five siblings- by his mother in a terraced house near the Cowes boatyards until being sent to live with his sister and her husband, a farmer. His mother was unable to afford the fares to the grammar school in Newp