Education
The Queen"s College.
The Queen"s College.
From 1953 to 1961, he was the head of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Children"s Hour. Born in Malvern, Worcestershire and educated at Queen"s College, Oxford, Davis began a teaching career at Dunchurch Hall Preparatory School, but soon moved on to Bembridge School in the Isle of Wight. In the years that followed, he recorded many stories, including Anna Sewell"s Black Beauty, Kenneth Grahame"s The Wind in the Willows and Kipling"s Just So Stories.
Barbara Sleigh was also employed on Children"s Hour at the time, but she had to resign due to a British Broadcasting Corporation policy against married couples working in the same department.
She continued to work for radio as a freelance writer and became a well-known writer of children"s fiction. In 1961, Davis was appointed head of children"s sound broadcasting at the British Broadcasting Corporation, but by that time children were deserting radio for television and the separate children"s radio department closed in 1964.