Ernest Longstaffe (5 April 1884 – 23 November 1958) was an English composer, conductor, and radio producer.
He was born in Newport, Essex, the son of the landscape painter Edgar Longstaffe.
[1] He started his career in concert parties and summer variety shows.
[4] The BBC radio programmes that he produced included Palace of Varieties – reportedly the favourite radio programme of King George VI – and The Happidrome.
[2] He retired from the BBC in 1949, but continued to appear on Palace of Varieties until shortly before his death,[4] in hospital in London in 1958 at the age of 74.