Tom Crowe
Tom Crowe (5 July 1922, County Clare, Ireland – 6 December 2010)[1] was an announcer on BBC Radio 3.
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he read French and German Literature, he first joined the BBC's Third Programme in 1952, but left in 1960. After writing the biography of the Arabist Owen Tweedy Gathering Moss (1967), he returned to the Corporation around the time of its publication.[2] During the 1970s he became one of the most familiar voices on Radio 3, and "an accident-prone but haughtily unflappable persona"[1] evolved. Hans Keller recalled Crowe's "inspired" opening of the network in June 1971 with the words: "Good morning to you. It's seven O'clock I'm afraid."[2]
Crowe retired from the BBC in 1982.
References
- ^ a b Obituary: Tom Crowe, Daily Telegraph, 3 January 2011
- ^ a b Humphrey Carpenter The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3, London: Phoenix, 1997 [1996], p.274
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