Joan Edgar (born Joan Burman, died 2005) was a World War II-era BBC Radio continuity announcer,[1] and an actress.[2]
She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 1 September 1945.[3]
She married the television producer Barrie Edgar in 1943.[2] The couple had first met when she performed as an acting student at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in the late 1930s.[2] They lived in the Edgbaston district of Birmingham in retirement. Their son David Edgar became a successful playwright. He had been encouraged in this pursuit by his father, starting to write plays at the age of five when his father constructed a small wooden theatre for him.[4] Their daughter Kate also entered the theatre, as a composer and musical director. Their other daughter, Sarah worked as an environmentalist.[2] Barrie survived Joan.