My husband, Mark Jones, who has died aged 67 of cancer, was for 15 years a popular head of the BBC’s Sound Archive. He spent four years on the board of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives.
Born in Raglan, in south-east Wales, to parents who were both schoolteachers, Mark was educated at the Haberdashers’ school in Monmouth. Its only lasting gift to him, he claimed, was a lifelong love of rugby union. A talented cricketer, he opened the batting for the school in 1964, relishing the coaching of the prolific Essex opener Sonny Avery. Later, while watching a Test match in Broadcasting House’s reception area, he was recruited into the BBC’s illustrious (if somewhat eccentric) cricket team the Bushmen. He was an avid member of the MCC.
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