John Ardagh

John Ardagh (28 May 1928, Nyasaland – 26 January 2008, London) was a British journalist, writer and broadcaster.

He was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and Worcester College, Oxford, where he studied classics and philosophy.

[1] His interest in provincial themes developed through work for Independent Television News and as a correspondent for The Observer (1960–66), mainly writing about culture.

His father, Osmond Ardagh, was a colonial administrator and played first-class cricket for Oxford University.

He was married four times, showing his “cosmopolitan streak in his choice of wives: English, Czech (rescued from the Prague Spring of 1968), Australian and German”[5](Katharina, born Schmitz, *1951 in Berlin).