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John Timpson—British journalist

Education

Timpson John Harry Robert Timpson OBE, (2 July 1928 – 19 November 2005), born in Kenton, Middlesex, was a British journalist, best known as a radio presenter. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, a boys' independent school in Northwood, London.

Work

John Timpson tries to charm Goldie back to earth with an Ethiopian bird pipe

John Harry Robert Timpson OBE, (2 July 1928 – 19 November 2005), born in Kenton, Middlesex, was a British journalist, best known as a radio presenter.

John Timpson in the mid 1960s John Harry Robert Timpson OBE, (2 July 1928 – 19 November 2005), born in Kenton, Middlesex, was a British journalist, best known as a radio presenter. He went straight to the Wembley News as a sixteen-year-old cub reporter. After five years there and two years of national service, he moved to Norfolk and the Eastern Daily Press, and then in 1959 to the BBC.