Piers Plowright (30 December 1937 – 23 July 2021)[1][2] was a British radio producer.
He attended Stowe School and then undertook national service in Malaya before returning to the UK and studying history at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1962.
[1] He subsequently taught for the British Council in Borneo, Iran and Sudan.
[3] He started working for the BBC as a trainee producer in 1968 and remained there until his retirement in 1997.
[1] In his history of BBC Radio 4, Life On Air, author David Hendy described Plowright's work as "closely observed portraits gently lobbed in the listeners' direction in the hope of starting a few ripples of emotion and thought".