Anthony Joseph Shryane was a long-serving producer of radio programs for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
He was born in Harborne

Harborne

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, Birmingham

Birmingham

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He was the first producer of The Archers

The Archers

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, in which capacity he served for 28 years until his retirement in 1979.
He also produced several popular panel games devised with Edward J. Mason

Edward J. Mason

Edward J. Mason was born on May 8, 1912 in Birmingham, England and died on February 3, 1971. He was a script writer for radio, television and movies for both the British Broadcasting Corporation and its rival Radio Luxembourg.-Brief biography:Edward J...

, including Guilty Party

Guilty Party

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, My Word!

My Word!

My Word! was a long-running radio panel game broadcast by the BBC on the Home Service and Radio 4 . It was created by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane, and featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir, famous in Britain for the series Take It From Here...

, and My Music.

In 1961, he was awarded an MBE

Order of the British Empire

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for services to broadcasting.

He continued working for the BBC on a freelance basis after his official retirement, finally retiring for real in 1984 after fifty years of service.