Joseph Cooper

Contents

Shows

Call the Tune

Face the Music

Biography

Concert pianist and TV and radio presenter, best known for hosting Face the Music. He made his broadcast debut in 1936, giving a recital in a radio series called My Piano and I, and was awarded the OBE in 1982.

Joseph Cooper died in 2001, aged 88.

Trivia

In the early 1960s, Cooper presented a magazine show, Here Today, on TWW. Although it was a regional show, one live edition made national headlines when Cooper was knocked to the ground by a lion in front of a million and a half viewers. Which rather puts Richard Whiteley's ferret in the shade, doesn't it?

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