Barrie Hesketh

Originally trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama where he met his future wife Marianne Richards, Barrie Hesketh began his career in repertory theatre in Leeds and Manchester. He went on to join the BBC as a radio Continuity Announcer. There followed several appearances in audio dramas and a further sojourn into teaching and adjudication. In 1963, he founded the Mull Little Theatre on the Island of Mull in the inner Hebrides of Scotland.