biography
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| lived:
| (1916–93)
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| biography:
| Radio and television presenter, born in Canada. Educated in Vancouver, he became an engineer, announcer, and radio actor in local radio (1937–43), and also for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1940–9). In England from 1949, he acted in various plays, including A Street Car Named Desire. Joining the BBC, he presented radio shows such as Breakfast with Braden, often co-presenting with his wife, Barbara Kelly (married 1942), and became a popular host of several TV series, such as The Brains Trust, On the Braden Beat, and All Our Yesterdays. |
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