Artist Info: Charles Chilton

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 library. [read more...]