Peter Fettes Explained

Peter Fettes
Occupation:	BBC 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

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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Radio 3 Announcers. Random radio jottings. 25 July 2014.
2. Web site: Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Peter Fettes . . BBC . 25 July 2014.