Karl Frederick Dallas (29 January 1931 – 21 June 2016)[2] was a British journalist, musician, author, playwright, peace campaigner, record producer, and broadcaster.
[4] His father Jack Dallas was an ex Scots Guardsman and a founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).
[3] His songs have been recorded by The Spinners (The Family of Man, written in 1955, after Dallas saw the exhibition of the same name[7]), Ewan MacColl, June Tabor and others.
For a time he ran his own public relations agency, with clients including Pan Books, Topic Records, and Billy Smart's Circus.
[14] He became chairman of Bradford Community Health Council,[14] and, in 2003, travelled to Iraq in a double-decker bus as part of the group of campaigners intending to act as human shields in the event of invasion.