Beard Liberation Front
20th August
Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has praised veteran broadcaster Bob Harris as a ‘hirsute icon’ as he marked 55 years of broadcasting on 19th August.
He first appeared on BBC Radio One 55 years ago this week hosting Sounds of the Seventies. He became well known as a presenter of the Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC2 and continues to present Country Show on Thursday evenings and Sounds of the Seventies on Sunday on Radio Two today.
Bob Harris was named Hirsute Broadcaster of the Year as far back as 2011 and 2012.
The campaigners say that while some early photographs show Bob Harris with distinctive sideburns but no beard, he has been a standard bearer for a positive images and impacts of beard wearing in broadcasting over six decades now.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, I was a youthful listener to the Sounds of the Seventies programmes in 1970 and fifty-five years on Bob Harris has become a hirsute icon in broadcasting and a positive role model for gravitas on air.
The Bob Harris Archive (caution includes beardless picture)
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