Derek McCulloch

Derek Ivor Breashur McCulloch OBE was a BBC Radio presenter and producer. He became known as Uncle Mac in Childrens Favourites and Childrens Hour, and the voice of Larry the Lamb in Toytown. He was the head of childrens broadcasting for the BBC from 1933 until 1951.

McCulloch was born in Plymouth to Scottish parents. The First World War interrupted his education, and he enlisted in 1915 in the Public Schools Battalion of the 16th Middlesex Regiment at the age of 17. He served until 1921 with the infantry, where he was commissioned into the Green Howards, and in the Royal Flying Corps as an equipment officer, including a spell on HMS Valiant. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. After the war he worked in Argentina on the railways, but had to return to England because of ill health.

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