| AdminHistory | Gilbert Charles Harding [1907-1960] was a radio and television broadcaster. He studied at Queens College Cambridge, and then trained for the Anglican priesthood before his conversion to Catholicism in 1929. Harding then worked as a schoolmaster, and later a professor of English at St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, before joining Bradford city police. After sustaining an injury on duty, he returned to teaching in Cyprus, whilst also working as a correspondent for the Times. Harding later returned to London to study for the bar at Gray's Inn, but joined the BBC in 1939. He worked in the outside broadcasting department and in Canada during the Second World War. His first personal television show 'Round Britain Quiz' was aired in 1947, but Harding also appeared on 'What's my Line', and radio programmes such as 'The Brains Trust' and 'Twenty Questions'. He died from an asthma attack at the age of 53, three weeks after his interview on television show 'Face to Face'. |