Joseph Elliott Needham Cooper, OBE (7 October 1912 – 4 August 2001) was an English pianist and broadcaster.
Cooper had already embarked on career as a concert pianist when the outbreak of World War II forced him to give up performing for the duration of hostilities.
The panellists included Joyce Grenfell, Robin Ray (who had an encyclopedic memory for opus numbers), and occasionally Bernard Levin.
[3] During the 1960s, Cooper occasionally appeared as one of the presenters of Here Today, a daily 15-minute light current affairs programme broadcast by TWW.
Cooper became known for his acerbic interviewing style and for regularly playing out the programme with a gentle piano piece.