Alan Ravenscroft


 * Our little group had gathered before the concert in the General Scott Room. Alan and I were the first to arrive. As the other guest checked in, we noticed how suave and cultured they all were and how prone they were to inviting each other to pop in and see them next time they were in Oxford. Alan is in television and can switch on suave and cultured whenever he likes. As the room filled, I could catch him saying, "Ah yes, I worked with Humphrey in the seventies", before going on to tell some tale that had his audience guffawing appreciatively. (JP describing a visit to a Proms concert as part of a BBC party in Radio Times, 12-18 August 1995, quoted in "Sock Syndrome", The Olivetti Chronicles, pp. 278-279)
 * Alan Ravenscroft is John Peel's younger brother. He is best known to Peel listeners as the family member who appeared most frequently in Peel's anecdotes of family life before he married Sheila Gilhooly and founded a family of his own. He also delivered a memorial speech at Peel's funeral. Yet Alan Ravenscroft has enjoyed a prollific and successful career in television since the early 1970s, with the BFI FIlm and TV Database listing 123 directorial credits and 37 programmes ha has produced. These cover a wide variety of subjects and genres, and include a stint as director of the influential London Weekend Television current affairs programme Weekend World in the mid-1970s (the "Humphrey" mentioned in the above extract is probably the arts programme-maker Humphrey Burton, also working at LWT at the time).
 * Alan Ravenscroft is John Peel's younger brother. He is best known to Peel listeners as the family member who appeared most frequently in Peel's anecdotes of family life before he married Sheila Gilhooly and founded a family of his own. He also delivered a memorial speech at Peel's funeral. Yet Alan Ravenscroft has enjoyed a prollific and successful career in television since the early 1970s, with the BFI FIlm and TV Database listing 123 directorial credits and 37 programmes ha has produced. These cover a wide variety of subjects and genres, and include a stint as director of the influential London Weekend Television current affairs programme Weekend World in the mid-1970s (the "Humphrey" mentioned in the above extract is probably the arts programme-maker Humphrey Burton, also working at LWT at the time).

His filmography does not include much that is music-related, although in 1983 he produced an edition of the BBC's Late Night In Concert featuring former Peel favourites The Steve Miller Band. His voice, which resembles Peel's but has retained rather more of a public school accent, can be heard in the documentary film The Beatles; From Liverpool To San Francisco, which he narrates.


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