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Frank Philips

Frank Philips was a newsreader at the BBC.

Person

  • Frank Philips
  • Born on: Aug. 24, 1901
  • Born in: Sidmouth, Groot Brittannië
  • Died on: Jan. 17, 1980
  • Died in: Putney, Londen, Groot Brittannië

Frank Philips (1901-1980) was a BBC newsreader, singer and broadcaster.[1] Philips was originally a singer by profession, and joined the BBC staff in 1935.[1] When he visited the Netherlands in 1948, he was described as: "A man whose words were worth as much as the meagre daily bread to millions of people in the five years of war behind us […]".[2]

Footnotes

  1. a, b IMDb: Frank Philips. Mentioned by Anne in her diary. Anne Frank, Diary Versions A and B, 27 March 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ ˮBBC-omroeper Frank Philips met vacantie te Hilversum“, Gooi- en Eemlander, 23 juni 1948.