Stewart Brooke-Wavell
Stewart Brooke-Wavell, or Stewart Wavell (1921–2010), was a British Malayan broadcaster, sound recordist and writer, and a member of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Life
[edit]Born in British Malaya, Wavell became a broadcaster with Radio Malaya, presenting programmes about the course of the Malayan Emergency in 1953, establishing their Sound Library, and pioneering their phone-in broadcasting.[1] Between 1954 and 1962 he also produced or participated in a number of programmes or segments for the BBC, including coverage of the royal tour of the Commonwealth in 1954,[2] and a profile of Tom Harrisson broadcast on 30 September 1960.[3] His main interests were folklore, cultural anthropology, and exploration, and he was known for his field recordings in these areas.[4][5] In 1960 he was the BBC's Burmese programme organiser,[6] and in 1963 he accompanied a Cambridge University expedition to locate the ancient "lost" kingdoms of Langkasuka and Tambralinga.
In the late 1960s he served as director of training for the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation, and wrote a training manual for them.[7] By 1976 he was living in Surrey, England,[8] and working as head of the BBC's Far Eastern Service.[9] He died in Croydon on 16 September 2010.[10]
His brother was Bruce Brooke-Wavell.
Publications
[edit]- The Lost World of the East (1958)
- The Naga King's Daughter (1965)
- with Audrey Butt and Nina Epton, Trances (1966)[11][12][13]
- The Art of Radio (1969)
- A Dream of Kinabalu (1988)
- Great Cobra Mountain (1990)
References
[edit]- ^ Peter J. Bloom, "The Language of Counterinsurgency in Malaya", in Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia, edited by Ian Aitken (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), p. 76.
- ^ https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/0e5ed80d7f7f4e198aab37b2c7bda412 Radio Times TV Announcements for Monday May 17, 1952 - 7.50 Commonwealth Journey
- ^ "Schedule - BBC Programme Index".
- ^ Patrick Newman, Tracking the Weretiger: Supernatural Man-Eaters of India, China and Southeast Asia (Jefferson NC and London, 2012), pp. 39-40, 129-132.
- ^ "The Sound of History". New Straits Times. 2017.
- ^ Exploration Review (1960), pp. 25-27.
- ^ Nandana Karuṇānāyaka, Broadcasting in Sri Lanka (Centre for Media and Policy Studies, 1990), pp. 161-167.
- ^ Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 49:1 (1976), p. 271.
- ^ The Listener, 96 (1976), p. 178.
- ^ "Death announcements". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ Reviewed by Douglass Price-Williams in Man, New Series, 2:3 (1967), p. 475.
- ^ Reviewed by Philip Snow in The Geographical Journal, 133:3 (1967), pp. 397-398.
- ^ Review by P. Spindler in Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 31:1/2 (1968), p. 144.
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