Richard Findlay (broadcaster)

He did not know his father, Albert Oskar Rudolf Barth, who was killed somewhere in East Prussia, having earlier won the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

His mother Ines Ilse Ingeborg Barth ("Inge") worked as a translator for the British Occupation Force in Berlin.

[1] Having a strong artistic flair Richard studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

[2] His next role was playing a schoolteacher in an STV drama series "This Man Craig" (1966/7) and then "The Revenue Men" (1967/8).

After spending some time as a continuity announcer for BBC Scotland he was asked to set up an English language radio station in Saudi Arabia.

[3] In 1972 he got a job with the COI Radio Division in London and moved to a 14th century tithe barn in Crowborough in East Sussex.