John Snagge

Biography

John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge was a British newsreader and commentator on BBC Radio, beginning his career as assistant director at Stoke-on-Trent's new relay station in 1924. He became one of the BBC's primary radio announcers in 1928 and went on to voice iconic events like the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race from 1931 to 1980. Snagge also narrated important wartime events and major state occasions, cementing his status as a renowned British broadcaster.