People from Looe - Derek Parker, Ray Bowden, Martin Bodenham, William Pengelly, Richie Reynolds, Leon Ockenden, Thomas Bond, Amy Elizabeth Imrie (Paperback)

Chapters: Derek Parker, Ray Bowden, Martin Bodenham, William Pengelly, Richie Reynolds, Leon Ockenden, Thomas Bond, Amy Elizabeth Imrie, Anna Palk, Sir Harry Trelawny, 5th Baronet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Derek Parker (born 1932) is a British writer and broadcaster. He is the author of numerous works on literature, ballet, and opera, and with his wife Julia of several books about astrology. He was born in Looe, Cornwall, and educated at Fowey Grammar School (1941-9). He worked as reporter with The Cornishman (Penzance (1949-55) then as drama critic with The Western Morning News (Plymouth) (1956-70). Subsequently he worked as writer, announcer and interviewer with TWW (Independent Television, Cardiff) being the first face to be seen at its opening transmission, then as freelance writer and broadcaster for BBC radio and television, reading the news from Alexandra Palace and broadcasting from Portland Place. He was a drama script advisor to ABC Television. During the 1960s and 1970s he wrote and introduced innumerable radio programmes about the arts, including series about the ballet and opera, and features on individual artists, interviewing among others Tamara Karsavina and Margot Fonteyn, Boris Christoff and Maggie Teyte. He introduced long-running series both for BBC Radio 4 and the B.B.C. World Service, such as The Poem Itself and The Paperback Programme. He reviewed non-fiction and television for The Times was a columnist for The Listener, and contributed to The Spectator. He reviewed for The Good Book Guide from its opening issue until 2002. He was author with his wife (astrologer Julia Parker) of The Compleat Astrologer(1971), the first popular modern textbook of astrology, which sold over a million copies in fourteen languages. T...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=166266