New Representative

New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 11

New Representative

PATRICK JUBB, who has just arrived in Sydney to take over the duties of BBC representative in Australia (replacing Neil Hutchison, now Director of Features for the ABC), joined the BBC 13° years ago as announcer with the Empire Service. .He was subsequently appointed Programme Executive for the West Region in Bristol, a position he held till the outbreak of war, when he became head of a department which broadcast in foreign languages to Occupied Europe, Similar administrative work with the BBC. monitoring service followed until 1942, when he enlisted with the Royal Engineers. In 1944 he | was sent to the Middle East as Director of two broadcasting stations in Cairo and Jerusalem, sending language broadcasts to South-Eastern Europe. He was later posted to Vienna as Senior Broad- | casting Officer in the Information Services Branch. After demobilisation Patrick Jubb returned to the BBC in charge of Overseas Talks. A year later he was appointed Head of Presentation for the Overseas Department. Keenly interested in dramatic work, Patrick Jubb first met Neil Hutchison when they both appeared | in Max Reinhardt’s production of A/| Midsummer Night’s Dream at | His other hobbies include cricket, photo- | graphy and music, e ) : : { ;