John Gray 1918-2006

Very sad news this Christmas about the death of John Gray, a long-serving staffer at the BBC then academic at Edinburgh Napier University. You can read an obituary at http://www.bectu.org.uk/news/gen/ng0263.html but I would just like to add my personal recollection of John as a kindly man with a love of radio and an encyclopaedic knowledge of the BBC since its early days. He retained his liking for a pint over some good conversation until very recently when poor health overtook him at the age of 88. When a student of mine contacted him for an interview while researching a documentary on the 'voice' of the BBC, he welcomed her and her boyfriend into his home and even took them out for a pizza. John will be sadly missed and my sincere condolences to his family.