Lionel Hale


Lionel Hale was an English critic, broadcaster and playwright.

Life

Hale was born in Beckenham, Kent.
In the 1940s, Hale presented the radio quiz Transatlantic Quiz and an early television quiz show called Quiz with Hale. He made regular appearances on Panorama between 1953 and 1955 as a theatre critic, and was featured as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 3 January 1958. One of Hale's play, These Two, ran for a short time on Broadway in May, 1934. These Two was a three-act drama set in a flat in London. He was also a frequent contributor to Punch, the British humor magazine.
His wife, Betty Taylor died in 1952. Their son was the publisher and literary agent James Hale. Lionel subsequently married Crystal Pudney, the daughter of A. P. Herbert.

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