Jacques Brown

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Jacques Brown, BBC Producer of The Goon Show, Beyond Our Ken, Much Binding in the Marsh and others was born Solomon Jacob Brown in Toxteth Park, Liverpool on 23 August 1900. A trumpet player in his youth, he had many stories to tell of being a jobbing musician in London in the 1920s. He performed in a number of minor acting roles before becoming a producer. After retiring from the BBC to nurse his wife who was seriously ill with cancer from which she later died, he helped his brother-in-law with his cake decorating business until his death and the business folded after the post office strike of (1972?). He retired to Hampshire where he lived with an old friend, Mrs W I Dismore, herself a widow, until his untimely death caused by complications after a car accident on 3 April 1975^[1].