Marcel Stellman
Marcel Leopold Stellman is a Belgian record producer and lyricist. In the UK he is best known as the man who brought the French show Des chiffres et des lettres to the UK as Countdown. His pseudonyms as a lyricist include Gene Martyn and Leo Johns.
Stellman's long association with the BBC began in the 1940s and 50s when he presented schools and children's radio programming. In the 1960s worked on a television series for children featuring Pinky and Perky, two singing puppet pigs. In the 1980s he stood in for Alan Dell, presenting 'oldies' on BBC Radio 2.
