Derek Hart

Derek Osborne Hart (18 March 1925 – 23 November 1986) was a British actor, journalist and broadcaster best known for his appearances on the BBC's current affairs programme of the 1950s and 1960s, Tonight.

For the American football player, see Derek Hart (American football).

Hart was born in Hertfordshire and educated in Bath, Somerset.[1] As an interviewer, Hart's subjects included Lon Chaney Jr and John Wyndham.[2] In 1969 he interviewed Christopher Isherwood for the Omnibus documentary series.[3] In 1968 he hosted a series of arts programmes, Tempo, in the course of which he interviewed major theatrical figures such as Michael Hordern and Sybil Thorndike. He also narrated documentaries on subjects such as The Industrial Relations Act: An Introduction (1971) and W. Somerset Maugham (1969).

For the children's LP series Tale Spinners for Children, he played the role of Sir Lancelot on the album Knights of the Round Table, the role of Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver in Lilliput, and the role of Johann Sebastian Bach on the album The Story of Bach.[4]

Works
  • A View of Venice (1972; with Anthony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon)
gollark: Lots of modern and not-that-modern technology is very impressive if you consider how complex it is. Like how CPUs are basically insanely advanced nanotechnology which they manufacture at the scale of, well, not individual atoms, but smallish groups of atoms, mass-produced and sold very cheaply.
gollark: So low-level architecture then.
gollark: Wait, do you mean architecture or process?
gollark: Unless you're just packing the existing spectrum into the visible light range or something.
gollark: No, if the eye could see it it would be gamma ray colored.

References
  1. "September 2007". Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  2. BBC Archive. Accessed 18 March 2016
  3. "BBC Four – Omnibus, Christopher Isherwood – A Born Foreigner". BBC. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  4. "Tale Spinners for Children". Archived from the original on 13 August 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
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