David Franklin (broadcaster)

tall, clean shaven white man in white 18th-century wig and 18th-century aristocrat's costume — Franklin as Baron Ochs in *Der Rosenkavalier*, Covent Garden, 1947

Henry Cyril Franklin (17 May 1908 – 22 October 1973), known professionally as David Franklin, was an English opera singer and broadcaster. His professional singing career, which began in 1936, was twice cut short, first by army service in the Second World War and then by a throat operation in 1951, which badly affected his singing voice and forced him to retire. He made a second career as a writer and broadcaster, becoming known to a wider public through his appearances on the BBC radio shows My Music and Twenty Questions.