John Radford, born in Nottingham on 1 December 1946, died on 19 October 2012,[1] was a British writer and broadcaster in the field of wine and food, with an emphasis on Spain.
After a background in the food and drink industry and retail, Radford's writing career started with children's comics, principally for the Dundee publishing house of D. C. Thomson & Co., with Judy comic for girls, for which he wrote a good deal of the annuals from 1978 to 1985 as well as the weekly paper.
In 1997 he was commissioned by the publisher Mitchell Beazley to write a new and definitive consumer guide to Spanish wines – The New Spain.
Radford has appeared on several wine-related British television shows including A Question of Taste which ran from 1997 to 1998 on Carlton Food Network, hosted by Russell Grant.
From 1993 to 1997 Radford co-presented the breakfast programme for Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire with BBC Three Counties Radio[4] based in Luton.