My friend and former work colleague Peter Fraenkel, who has died aged 98, was a greatly admired radio broadcaster. He began his career in Africa before moving to the BBC in London, where he was instrumental in shaping the corporation’s broadcasts to Greece and eastern Europe.
Starting out in the 1950s at the Central African Broadcasting Service, Peter initially made programmes only for African people and entirely in local languages before moving in the early 60s to the BBC’s External Services, writing radio programmes for translation.
