[5] With help from his RCM friend, the clarinettist Frederick Thurston, he gathered together a group of musicians to perform the first radio broadcasts of music from Marconi House.

[9][10] He composed music for Children's Hour programmes,[11] on which he played the character of Uncle Jeff,[12] and undertook the role of what would now be called a continuity announcer.

[14] Famously, the director of the BBC, John Reith, was once entertaining the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Randall Davidson, who expressed a love of piano music.

[3] However, in 1926, having realised that his opportunities to progress as a musician and conductor were limited,[3] he moved to a more technical role, responsible for the quality of broadcasts.

[3] Following military service in World War II[1] (he received an emergency commission as a lieutenant on 20 November 1940[16]), he returned to the BBC as a producer,[7] continuing in the latter role until at least 1956.

[1] In October 1935, shortly after leaving the BBC "with much regret", he published a three-part reminiscence of his radio work, "Soap Box Days", in the magazine Popular Wireless.