Sir John Beresford Clark, KCMG, CBE, FKC (2 December 1902 – 2 August 1968) was a British broadcaster.
[1] After working for the BBC in Cardiff as a Talks Assistant and at Manchester, he joined the Empire Service,[2] becoming its Director in 1935.
When he committed himself to the newly-born Overseas Service from which in the end so astonishing an effort and importance were to emerge in and after the Second World War, he was in the position of a man who 'lit matches on Dartmoor in a November gale hoping to find his way'".
[2] For his efforts in leading the Empire, European and Overseas services, he was appointed firstly a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1942 and then a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1958.
[2] His "rich" private papers formed a major source-base for Asa Briggs' study of the development of British overseas and Empire broadcasting;[4] Briggs dedicated the third volume of his History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom to Clark.