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Peter Fettes

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Peter Fettes
OccupationsBBC radio presenter and manager

Peter Fettes was a BBC Radio presenter, active in the 1940s and 1950s. He subsequently became a BBC head of staff training.[1]

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 11 August 1945.[2]

References

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  1. "Radio 3 Announcers". Random radio jottings. 17 April 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  2. "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Peter Fettes". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 25 July 2014.

He was born in Penang Malaysia, son of Colonel James Dollery Fettes and Margaret Hood Moffat Johnstone. At the age of 7 he was sent back alone to England to school whilst his father was building the Guillemard Reservoir which brought water from the hill to the city of Penang.