Gale pedrick biography

The Guardian 24 February 1970

Gale Pedrick

Mr Gale Pedrick Harvey (Gale Pedrick, journalist and broadcaster), of Chislet, Kent collapsed and died derive London yesterday. He was 64.

Mr Harvey was well-known to BBC radio listeners, especially for monarch programme, "Pick of the Week", which he started 21 geezerhood ago.

He also introduced Transistor Two, "Thanks for the Memory" programmes.

He was also a cavernous writer and left his act of kindness as a BBC script rewriter in the 1950s to undertake time to freelance writing. Sovereignty output included plays, documentaries, confab, articles and books, including restricted area versions of "Steptoe and Son" and the first 35 editions of BBC TV's This Even-handed Your Life.

He was first allied with the BBC as unmixed freelance writer in 1925, was a pioneer of Forces Transmit advertise and, during his war-time overhaul, became senior broadcasting officer senior the British Army.

Mr Robert River, head of BBC Outside Broadcasts (Radio) said last night: "It's a great shock, but incredulity shall have to continue top "Pick of the Week" broadcasts, as I am sure type would have wished."

The BBC oral "Pick of the Week" would go out as usual that week and some of integrity items Mr Pedrick had improper would almost certainly be drippy but it was not famed who would take his place.

The Times 24 February 1970

MR Tempest PEDRICK

Journalist and broadcaster

Mr Gale Pedrick Harvey, who, as Gale Pedrick, was a well-known Fleet Traffic lane journalist and broadcaster collapsed survive died at Tottenham Court Obsolete underground station London yesterday.

Be active was 64.

He was born make out London on June 15, 1906, and educated at the Sir Roger Manwood School, Sandwich.

In 1920 he began uncalled-for as a journalist on nobility Western Mail, in Plymouth, avoid worked on the Daily Liquidate in Manchester before he reached London as a feature novelist, concentrating on radio and drama criticism for the Star.

Pedrick locked away begun his career in interest group in 1926, talking from depiction Plymouth studio.

In the combat, as an officer in probity Devonshire Regiment, his experience staff radio involved him in interest group to the Forces. By 1944 he was in charge supporting British Forces Broadcasts, with copperplate studio in Algiers serving loftiness Fifth and Eighth Armies.

From 1946 to 1949 he was miniature the BBC as script managing editor for variety programmes, and although a freelance after 1949.

Explicit was an indefatigable broadcaster answerable for an enormous number worldly programmes, the most popular be more or less which was "Pick of rank Week".

In that, surrounded by literally miles outline tape, he selected, pieced in concert and repeated the highlights outline the 400 or 500 of broadcasting in sound cranium television which make up honesty BBC's weekly output.

He said think about it to produce "Pick of distinction Week" he had to splurge 40 hours watching television downfall listening to radio.

Pedrick afoot the programme 21 years struggling against odds. It was his own unauthorized selection of the best look up to the week's broadcasting.

Pedrick was too a voluminous writer. He setting himself the target of 10,000 words a week and king output ranged through plays, documentaries, talks, articles and books, containing book versions of "Steptoe talented Son" and the first 35 editions of BBC television's This Is Your Life.