Television and Radio
On television, among many performances, he appeared in Dr. Finlay's Casebook and For the Love of Ada, co-starring with Irene Handl.
He was in the play Come Laughing Home by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall on BBC Radio 4 in 1970. In 1971 he was the subject of This Is Your Life.
He was the guest castaway on BBC radio's Desert Island Discs on 2 January 1953; his chosen book was "The Oxford Book of English Verse" by Arthur Quiller-Couch and his luxury a yellow waistcoat.
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