Tom Crowe was an announcer on BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...

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Educated at Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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, where he read French and German Literature, he first joined the BBC's Third Programme

BBC Third Programme

The BBC Third Programme was a national radio network broadcast by the BBC. The network first went on air on 29 September 1946 and became one of the leading cultural and intellectual forces in Britain, playing a crucial role in disseminating the arts...

 in 1952, but left in 1960. After writing the biography of Arabist Owen Tweedy he returned to the Corporation in the late 1960s. During the 1970s he became one of the most familiar voices on Radio 3, and "an accident-prone but haughtily unflappable persona" evolved.

Crowe retired from the BBC in 1982.