Joan Edgar (born Joan Burman, died 2005) was a World War II-era BBC Radio continuity announcer,[1] and an actress.
[2] She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 1 September 1945.
[3] She married the television producer Barrie Edgar in 1943.
[2] The couple had first met when she performed as an acting student at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in the late 1930s.
[4] Their daughter Kate also entered the theatre, as a composer and musical director.