Editing Patrick Gordon Walker (section)

==Early life==
Born in [[Worthing]], Sussex, Gordon Walker was the son of Alan Lachlan Gordon Walker, a Scottish judge in the [[Indian Civil Service]]. He was educated at [[Wellington College (Berkshire)|Wellington College]] and at [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he took a second in modern history in 1928 and subsequently gained a [[Bachelor of Letters|B. Litt]].<ref>''Oxford University Calendar 1932'', Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1932, pg.268, 817.</ref> He was a student (fellow) in history at Christ Church from 1931<ref>''Oxford University Calendar 1932'', Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1932, pg.541.</ref> until 1941.<ref name="timesobit">''[[The Times]]'', 3 December 1980, p.19 col.6</ref>

From 1940 to 1944, Gordon Walker worked for the [[BBC]]'s European Service, where from 1942 he arranged the BBC's daily broadcasts of the [[BBC German Service]]. In 1945, he worked as assistant director of the BBC's German Service working from [[Radio Luxembourg]], travelling with the [[British army|British forces]]. He broadcast about the liberation of the German [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camp]] at [[Bergen-Belsen]], and wrote a book on the subject called ''The Lid Lifts''.<ref name="ODNB">Pearce (2004)</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Celinscak|first=Mark|title=Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Concentration Camp|year=2015|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|isbn=9781442615700}}</ref>

From 1946 to 1948, he was chairman of the [[British Film Institute]].<ref>''BFI Annual Reports'', London: BFI</ref>