John Ebdon

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

1. Ebdon 1985
2. BBC 2005
3. BBC 2005
4. Donovan, Paul (1991) The Radio Companion. London: Grafton; p. 89

• 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

• Obituary The Guardian
• Obituary The Telegraph
• Obituary The Independent