John Ebdon

John Ebdon (December 22, 1923– March 19, 2005[1]) was a British author, broadcaster, Graecophile and, for 21 years, director of the London Planetarium.[1] He was educated at Blundell's School. On his death, obituaries appeared in the Times, Independent, Guardian and Telegraph newspapers and on the BBC.[2]

For the cricketer, see John Ebdon (cricketer).

Ebdon presented Archive Feature on the Home Service and Radio 4 from 1961 to 1987. He also presented the archive-based Nonsense at Noon on the Home Service, 1965–66. "His facetious patrician tones every third Monday morning, his sense of the absurd, his ear for a word mistakenly taken out of context, his famous cat Perseus, delighted much of middle England as much as it infuriated a small minority."--Glyn Worsnip.[3]

Bibliography
  • Ebdon's Odyssey (1979)[4]
  • Ebdon's Iliad (1983)[4]
  • Ebdon's England (1985)[4]
  • Near Myths: A Love Affair with Greece (1989)[4]
  • From My Archives: Maiden Aunts and Other Trifles (1990)[5]
gollark: You just happened to be the target of inevitable pointless crazy wrath.
gollark: And think "this unwritten rule I made up is so obvious, it *must* be true".
gollark: Because people are mad?
gollark: It'll help me figure out how to use the stack I'm looking at properly anyway.
gollark: You know what, I'll just start on a tradehub prototype now.

References
  1. "John Ebdon - Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  2. BBC 2005
  3. Donovan, Paul (1991) The Radio Companion. London: Grafton; p. 89
  4. David Howe (21 March 2005). "John Ebdon". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  5. "John Ebdon". The Times. 24 March 2005. Retrieved 5 June 2019.

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