Rupert St John Nesbit (1919 - 1976) was an under-achieving radio producer responsible for some of the BBC's most baffling programming in the immediate post-war period.
Rupert, who pioneered the coverage of backgammon on the radio was perhaps best known for the series, 'An uncomfortable silence with...'. This long-running Radio Four series brought together two prominent personalities of the time with absolutely nothing in common to sit in silence in front of an invited audience.
This photograph from the 1971 Christmas edition of the programme features Jimmy Saville, a prominent Radio One disc jockey and Enoch Powell, the maverick anti-immigration right-wing politician.
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