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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> Notices, obituaries and tributes >> Derek Ratcliffe http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1192788421 Message started by Forum Admin on Oct 19^th, 2007, 10:08am

Title: Derek Ratcliffe
Post by Forum Admin on Oct 19^th, 2007, 10:08am

The death has been reported of Derek Ratcliffe, a producer in the earliest days of local radio. He had worked at Radio Stoke and then for a long period at Radio Humberside, where he did stints as both a news and general producer. One of his jobs involved covering the "south bank" of the Humber in what is now North Lincolnshire again. He worked from unmanned out-studios at Scunthorpe, Goole and Barton-on-Humber, in the days before the building of the Humber Bridge. He covered the Flixborough disaster in which more than 20 people were killed when a chemical plant blew up. Later he was attached to Radio 2 publicity.