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Charles Chilton

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Also known as Chilton

New Zealand zoologist and carcinologist (1860-1929)

Person · Open Library

Works
10

Top works

  • Ah dieu! que la guerre est jolie, d'après "Oh what a lovely war"
  • Sprong in het Heelal
  • World in Peril, The
  • Journey into Space: The Red Planet 2
  • Discovery of the American West

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Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1917-06-15
Active to
2013-01-02

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Listeners
199
Total plays
4,034

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Charles Chilton MBE (born 1917) is a BBC radio presenter, a writer and a producer. Born in Bloomsbury in London, England, he never knew his father - who was killed during World War I - and when he was six his mother died as a result of having a botched abortion [1], so he was raised by his grandmother. He was educated at St. Pancras[disambiguation needed] Church of England school. When he was 15 Chilton joined the BBC as a messenger boy. A year later he became an assistant in their gramophone l

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