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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Sir Gerald Clayton Beadle CBE (17 April 1899 – 6 November 1976) was a British announcer and administrator for BBC Radio, and later Director of BBC Television.

Life

Beadle was born in Belvedere, Kent, to Clayton Beadle (1868–1917), a chemist, and Helen Pears Beadle.[1][2][3]

He joined the BBC in 1923, as a radio announcer. He left in 1924 and rejoined in 1926 as station director in Belfast.[3] He moved to the television team in 1936.[4] He was instrumental in establishing the BBC's Television Centre, in London.[4]

He was knighted in December 1960.[4]

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 30 October 1961.[5]

His portrait, a 1961 photograph by Walter Bird, is in the National Portrait Gallery.[6]

He died on 6 November 1976.[3]

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  1. Bexley, Kent, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1925
  2. 1911 England Census
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