Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/Q4932212> ?p ?o }
- Q4932212 description "British radio personality".
- Q4932212 description "British radio personality".
- Q4932212 subject Q13284766.
- Q4932212 subject Q15286122.
- Q4932212 subject Q6490926.
- Q4932212 subject Q6938689.
- Q4932212 subject Q8315678.
- Q4932212 abstract "Cyril Frederick 'Bob' Danvers-Walker (11 October 1906 – 17 May 1990) was an English radio and newsreel announcer best known for his broadcasts on Pathé News cinema newsreels during World War II.Born in Cheam, Surrey, Danvers-Walker spent much of his childhood in Tasmania and began his radio career in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1925, moving on briefly to ABC in Sydney in 1932 before returning to the UK that same year.From 1932 to 1939 he worked as a presenter for the International Broadcasting Company (IBC) network of commercial radio stations broadcasting in English to Britain from the continent, becoming Chief Announcer at Radio Normandy. He also helped the IBC to set up radio stations at Toulouse, Paris, Lyon, Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, but Radio Normandy was always the company's flagship station, and Danvers-Walker was heard regularly over its airwaves until the station was closed down at the start of World War II in 1939.Danvers-Walker wanted to join the BBC as soon as the war started, but was prevented by a BBC rule against employing anyone who had worked on commercial radio. This rule was quietly dropped in 1943, and from then on he was deployed on a variety of morale-boosting wartime BBC radio shows, including Round and About and London Calling Europe.His rich, distinctive voice (though not his name) also became familiar to cinemagoers as the anonymous offscreen commentator for the twice-weekly British Pathe newsreel, a job he held continuously from 1940 to 1970. The upbeat, patriotic, "stiff upper lip" style he adopted in this role soon became a kind of standard for the medium, and is still parodied to this day whenever television or film wants to suggest 1940s and 1950s news coverage. Kenneth Branagh has stated that he was consciously imitating Danvers-Walker's "perky tone" in a cod "newsreel" segment in his 2000 film Love's Labour's Lost.Bob Danvers-Walker also worked freelance for many radio and television outlets. He was the announcer on the "rebel" version of the comedy programme Much Binding in the Marsh on Radio Luxembourg when the show was in temporary exile from the BBC (1950–51), and for the science-fiction series Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future on the same station (1951–55). He took part in the "stunt" programme People are Funny on Luxembourg, recorded around the UK and presented by Peter Martyn. As far as can be ascertained, however, he was never on the staff of Radio Luxembourg, even though his picture appears on several Radio Luxembourg fan websites. At about this time he registered the personal car number plate RAD 10 which became available in Gloucestershire.The arrival of ITV (commercial television) in 1955 brought many new opportunities, including as the announcer on Michael Miles's popular networked game show Take Your Pick (1955–68) and its successor programme, Wheel of Fortune (1969–71) -- not to be confused with the later (1988-2001) game show of the same name.At BBC radio he was one of the regular presenters of Housewives' Choice throughout the 1950s, and contributed to many other programmes, including in the 1960s Holiday Hour and Countryside. For BBC Television he featured regularly in Saturday Night Out. He also appeared in a number of feature films, often as himself.Danvers-Walker's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that he began to use the full name "Danvers-Walker" only in the 1950s. On a rare surviving audio clip from Radio Normandy, his colleague Roy Plomley is heard referring to him as "Bob Walker", but he was described as "C. Danvers-Walker" in the station's programme schedules printed in Radio Pictorial on (for example) 3 May 1935.[1] Conversely, a 1962 Pathe News Issue Sheet lists him as "R.Walker".It is claimed on several websites that Danvers-Walker (or, in some other versions of the story, Roy Plomley - or possibly both) narrowly escaped being captured by the Gestapo at the radio station in Fécamp on the Normandy coast. This seems highly unlikely: all the available evidence suggests that IBC operations in France had closed down entirely by January 1940, whereas German forces did not invade the country until May of that year, arriving in Fécamp on 11 June.He died in Oxford, England, in 1990.".
- Q4932212 birthDate "1906-10-11".
- Q4932212 birthPlace Q145.
- Q4932212 birthPlace Q21.
- Q4932212 birthPlace Q2240615.
- Q4932212 birthPlace Q23276.
- Q4932212 birthYear "1906".
- Q4932212 deathDate "1990-05-17".
- Q4932212 deathPlace Q145.
- Q4932212 deathPlace Q21.
- Q4932212 deathPlace Q23169.
- Q4932212 deathPlace Q34217.
- Q4932212 deathYear "1990".
- Q4932212 wikiPageExternalLink 72627?view=credit.
- Q4932212 wikiPageExternalLink Radio_Normandy.htm.
- Q4932212 wikiPageExternalLink 208-dwalker.html.
- Q4932212 wikiPageExternalLink www.britishpathe.com.
- Q4932212 wikiPageExternalLink Street19991.html.
- Q4932212 wikiPageExternalLink sound.htm.
- Q4932212 wikiPageExternalLink radio_sponsorship.htm.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q1191294.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q13284766.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q1371925.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q142.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q145.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q1492.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q15286122.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q15878.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q16994356.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q17021997.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q1860.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q2064278.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q21.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q215279.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q2240615.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q23165.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q23169.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q23276.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q261492.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q269732.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q2807.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q2893565.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q3130.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q3141.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q3196539.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q34217.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q34366.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q362.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q36687.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q408.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q43250.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q456.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q55294.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q6490926.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q6525638.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q6832829.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q6930922.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q6938689.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q7318.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q735478.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q7373268.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q7880.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q7992028.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q8315678.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q8818.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q90.
- Q4932212 wikiPageWikiLink Q92440.
- Q4932212 dateOfBirth "1906-10-11".
- Q4932212 dateOfDeath "1990-05-17".
- Q4932212 name "Danvers-Walker, Bob".
- Q4932212 placeOfBirth Q145.
- Q4932212 placeOfBirth Q21.
- Q4932212 placeOfBirth Q2240615.
- Q4932212 placeOfBirth Q23276.
- Q4932212 placeOfDeath Q145.
- Q4932212 placeOfDeath Q21.
- Q4932212 placeOfDeath Q23169.
- Q4932212 placeOfDeath Q34217.
- Q4932212 shortDescription "British radio personality".
- Q4932212 type Person.
- Q4932212 type Agent.
- Q4932212 type Person.
- Q4932212 type Agent.
- Q4932212 type NaturalPerson.
- Q4932212 type Thing.
- Q4932212 type Q215627.
- Q4932212 type Q5.
- Q4932212 type Person.
- Q4932212 comment "Cyril Frederick 'Bob' Danvers-Walker (11 October 1906 – 17 May 1990) was an English radio and newsreel announcer best known for his broadcasts on Pathé News cinema newsreels during World War II.Born in Cheam, Surrey, Danvers-Walker spent much of his childhood in Tasmania and began his radio career in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1925, moving on briefly to ABC in Sydney in 1932 before returning to the UK that same year.From 1932 to 1939 he worked as a presenter for the International Broadcasting Company (IBC) network of commercial radio stations broadcasting in English to Britain from the continent, becoming Chief Announcer at Radio Normandy. ".
- Q4932212 label "Bob Danvers-Walker".
- Q4932212 givenName "Bob".
- Q4932212 name "Bob Danvers-Walker".
- Q4932212 name "Danvers-Walker, Bob".