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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> Notices, obituaries and tributes >> Barrie Edgar http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1357034132 Message started by Roundabout on Jan 1^st, 2013, 9:56am

Title: Barrie Edgar
Post by Roundabout on Jan 1^st, 2013, 9:56am

The Pebble mill website carries news today of the passing of the great Midlands TV producer Barrie Edgar.
http://pebblemill.org/blog/barrie-edgar-1919-2012/

Title: Re: Barrie Edgar
Post by Roundabout on Jan 4^th, 2013, 2:46pm

An excellent obituary of Barrie Edgar in his local paper the Birmingham Evening Mail.......
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/tv/pioneering-birmingham-tv-producer-barrie-397956

Title: Re: Barrie Edgar
Post by Administrator on Jan 6^th, 2013, 10:50pm

An obituary may be found in "The Daily Telegraph" here.

"....In June (1946) Edgar joined the BBC’s television service, and was studio manager on shows ranging from Muffin the Mule to productions of Shakespeare from Stratford. He worked on the 1948 London Olympics as a production manager and — largely by accident — as a commentator.....

Barrie Edgar was a BBC loyalist who refused offers to join ITV in the 1950s and retired from the corporation at the then compulsory age of 60 in 1979."