Evan Senior

b. Adelaide?, Australia, 1907 – d. UK ????) Critic, editor, radio programme director, composer, musician Evan Senior studied music in his youth and later abandoned law to work for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) as a radio programme director and announcer. His comedy, "On the Airways" (1931), specially written for radio became the first locally-written music theatre work to be broadcast by the ABC. His comedy, "Appointment at Nine" made its radio the following year. Senior later wrote drama and music criticism for the Adelaide News before moving to Britain in 1947 where he later founded the classical music magazines "Music and Musicians" and "Records and Recordings".