Arthur Johnson Remembered
Peter Dickinson The Guardian , Thursday 11 December 2014 17.37 GMT Arthur Johnson produced David Munrow’s series for BBC Radio 3, Pied Piper: Tales and Music for Young Listeners. It ran for 655 editions over five years. As one of the leading music producers at BBC Radio 3 for almost 30 years, Arthur Johnson, who has died aged 74, produced David Munrow’s groundbreaking series Pied Piper: Tales and Music for Young Listeners. The programme, which thrived on Munrow’s ability to present early music to a wide audience, ran for 655 editions over five years, until Munrow’s death at 33 in 1976. As head of documentaries at Radio 3, Arthur, whom I valued as a friend and collaborator, won many awards, including a Sony for our programme on Lord Berners (1983), and the Prix Musical de Brno for a feature on Mozart in Prague (1990). He also produced Record Review for many years and, later...