Peter Fettes was a BBC Radio presenter, active in the 1940s and 1950s. He subsequently became a BBC head of staff training.[1]
Peter Fettes | |
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Occupation(s) | BBC radio presenter and manager |
He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 11 August 1945.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Radio 3 Announcers". Random radio jottings. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Peter Fettes". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
He was born in Penang Malaysia, son of Colonel James Dollery Fettes and Margaret Hood Moffat Johnstone. At the age of 7 he was sent back alone to England to school whilst his father was building the Guillemard Reservoir which brought water from the hill to the city of Penang.