Tom Crowe
Tom Crowe (5 July 1922 – 6 December 2010)[1] was an announcer on BBC Radio 3.
Raised in County Clare, Ireland and educated at
He wrote the biography of the Arabist Owen Tweedy Gathering Moss (1967).[4] 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".[4] On another occasion, when the Greenwich Time Signal was accidentally heard over The Hebrides overture (aka, Fingal's Cave) he commented: "I do hope the Mendelssohn didn't spoil your enjoyment of the pips".[2]
Crowe retired from the BBC in 1982. Later he worked for the
References
- ^ a b c "Tom Crowe". The Telegraph. 3 January 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Tom Crowe". The Times. London. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "The Network Voice". History of the BBC. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ 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