Wallace Greenslade

During the Second World War, he served for two and a half years as a lieutenant commander in the Royal Naval Reserve.

[3] In 1945 Greenslade joined the BBC, where he began in the European Service, as presentation assistant and newsreader.

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 12 December 1952.

[5] Physically a large rotund man, "the massive Greenslade" a colleague once called him, he died suddenly at his home at Weybridge, Surrey, in April 1961, aged 48 from a heart attack.

At the subsequent memorial service, his BBC colleague John Snagge gave an address.