ArtistInfo

Wilfred Pickles

GB
Classical, Spoken Word and Children's Music

Wilfred Pickles OBE (13 October 1904 in Halifax – 27 March 1978 in Brighton) was an English actor and radio presenter.Born in Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, he moved to Southport, Lancashire, with his family in 1929 and worked with his father as a builder. He joined an amateur dramatic society and in a local production there, met Mabel Celilia Myerscough, all of whose family had been connected with the stage. Pickles remained a proud Yorkshireman, and having been selected by the BBC as an announcer for its North Regional radio service, he went on to be an occasional newsreader on the BBC Home Service during World War II. He was the first newsreader to speak in a regional accent rather than Received Pronunciation, "a deliberate attempt to make it more difficult for Nazis to impers

Genres

• Classical
• Spoken Word
• Children's Music
• Pop