My husband, David Arscott, who has died aged 81, was a producer and presenter at BBC Radio Sussex (originally Radio Brighton), in his words the most wonderful job he had ever had. He was a believer in what he called “local Radio 4” – good speech programmes for local audiences – and disliked what he called “pop ’n’ prattle”.
From the mid-1970s to 1991, David interviewed academics, archaeologists, wildlife experts, gardeners – anyone with a good story to tell about Sussex, the county he adopted and took to his heart. When new management emphatically went for “p’n’p” and asked him to “pop it up”, David bowed out of his morning programme with Lulu’s Shout.
