Early Years
Chesney left school at the age of 16 and became a professional harmonica player. He was declared unfit to serve in World War II because of illness. He began to write potential radio scripts for the BBC where he came into contact with future writing partner Ronald Wolfe.
Wolfe was born in London and during World War II he worked as a radio engineer at Marconi. In the early 1950s he began to contribute to radio scripts and his long and fruitful partnership with Chesney began. Wolfe was the first cousin of actor Warren Mitchell.
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