Person

Cargher, John

1919–2008

John Cargher AM (1919-2008), music broadcast presenter, grew up in England, Germany and Madrid ... After working in theatre and television production, he migrated to Australia in 1951, to manage record shops in Melbourne ... In April 1966 he began hosting the weekly program Singers of Renown on ABC Melbourne. Though conceived as a 13-part series, the program continued, and went national in 1976. Cargher remained its unpretentious, encyclopaedic writer and presenter until the week before he died in 2008, his forty-two years and 2124 programs at the microphone earning him the record for the longest run of any combined program and presenter in Australian radio history