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| 3 Aug 2021 | |
| Written by Olivia Tan | |
| Alumni |
Piers Plowright, who has died aged 83 of cancer, read History at Christ Church from 1958 to 1962. He began his three decades of radio producer at the BBC working on drama, and found his true voice with documentary features.
During his time as a BBC radio drama and feature maker from 1968 to 1997 he won the Prix Italia for radio documentaries three times as well as three Gold and two Silver Sony Awards and a Sony Special Award for Continual Dedication and Commitment to the Radio Industry. Since then he has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an honourary doctor at Bournemouth University and a 'Radio Luminary' at the prestigious Chicago Third Coast Radio Festival.
Click here to read Pier Plowright's obituary in The Guardian.
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