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Major Charles John Morris, CBE (1895–1980), known as John, was a British mountaineer, anthropologist and journalist, and controller of BBC Radio's Third Programme. == Life == Morris served in the army from 1915 to 1934. After serving in the trenches during the First World War, he transferred to the Indian Army's 3rd Gurkha Rifles.〔Transcript of ''Desert Island Discs'' appearance, in BBC archives〕 He took part in two attempts to climb Mount Everest, the first of which, under General Charles Granville Bruce and climbing leader Lt-Col Edward Lisle Strutt, was in 1922 and then in 1936 under Hugh Ruttledge.〔 On the latter, his personal servant was Tenzing Norgay, who made the first ascent of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953.〔 He received an award from the Royal Geographical Society for his exploration of Chinese Turkistan, while still in the army.〔 He retired from military service in the mid 1930s and taught English in Japan.〔 He was Professor of English Literature, Keio University and lecturer at Imperial and Bunrika Universities, Tokyo from 1938 and also adviser on the English language to Japan's Dept. of Foreign affairs. He was repatriated by the Diplomatic corps after Japan's entry into the Second World War and joined the BBC, running their Far East service.〔 Morris was head of the BBC Far Eastern Service 1943-1952, and controller for the BBC Third Programme 1952–1958.〔Orwell Remembered, p.171〕 From February 1943 to October 1943 he worked in the same department as George Orwell, at 200 Oxford Street. He wrote an article about Orwell, "Some are more equal than others", for ''Penguin New Writing'' Number 40, September 1950 which was reprinted in ''Orwell Remembered'' with the title "That Curiously Crucified Expression": Stephen Spender described Morris in his ''Journals'' as:〔Two Wasted Years, Orwell, Collected Works, Secker & Warburg, 2001 p.36〕 He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1957 and appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 16 February 1959. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Morris (anthropologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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