Wilfred De'Ath (/diˈɑːt/; 28 July 1937 – 19 February 2020)[1] was a British author and journalist who worked for the BBC as a radio producer in the 1960s and 1970s and wrote a column in The Oldie.
During this period, he produced and interviewed public figures such as Auberon Waugh, Judi Dench, John Wells, Caryl Churchill and Daphne du Maurier.
[4] As the producer of Midweek in 1964, he arranged for the broadcast of "The Maurice Cole Quarter of an Hour Show" – the first radio appearance of Kenny Everett.
He then went to San Francisco, home of the Hippie movement, and then finally returned to Britain to report on experiments in communal living.
[8] De'Ath's career at the BBC ended after he wrote an article for the Hampstead and Highgate Express in which he described nine colleagues as "intellectual pygmies".