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Profile of Desmond Carrington
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Desmond Carrington |
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23rd May 1926 |
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Bromley, Kent, England, UK |
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Desmond Carrington (born 23 May 1926) is a UK-based actor and broadcaster, currently best-known for his weekly show on BBC Radio 2. His show went out on Sundays for 23 years from 1981 to 2004, when it moved to Tuesdays. He currently lives in Scotland.
Carrington's first professional stage appearance was in 1942, although he was conscripted into the army a year later. At the end of World War II he joined a British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) radio station in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He returned to the UK a few years later and worked as a radio producer as well as acting in a couple of films and on TV, where he became well-known as Dr Anderson in Emergency Ward 10.
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