
Ralph Barrett is a broadcasting consultant, his career started with Baird Television at London's Crystal Palace, and he then studied radio and electronics at many technical colleges and polytechnics in and around London. At the outbreak of war in 1939 he moved to a radio station on the Thames estuary and had an 'exciting' time during the Battle of Britain. The radio station was in direct contact with the USA and was also a radio interception station for secret agents operating in Europe. Shortly after the war, Ralph graduated at the Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers. In later years he was Assistant to the Head of BBC Television Network, and moved around Europe in connection with foreign broadcasts.