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Raymond Arthur Gosling (5 May 1939 – 19 November 2013) was an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and gay rights activist. He wrote and presented several hundred television and radio documentaries and regional programmes for BBC Radio 4 and Granada Television from the 1960s to 1980s on quirky aspects of life in different British towns and cities. His later documentaries focused on his personal life and his emergence as a gay activist. He was described as "one of the most uniquely talented figures in the history of British broadcasting."〔 In February 2010, he claimed during a local BBC television programme to have killed a lover in an act of euthanasia. He was briefly arrested,〔Robert Booth ("Ray Gosling arrested on suspicion of murder after televised revelations", ) ''The Guardian'', 17 February 2010〕 but the claims were false and he was later given a suspended sentence for wasting police time. == Early life == Gosling was born in Northampton in 1939.〔(Robert Chalmers, "Ray Gosling: The outcast", ''The Independent'', 30 September 2012 ). Retrieved 20 November 2013〕〔 He was educated at Northampton Grammar School and the University of Leicester, and also briefly worked as a railway signalman, before dropping out to become the manager of a band, and then working in a factory in London and as a youth worker in Leicester.〔〔 He moved to Nottingham while in his twenties, and became a detached outreach youth worker in the St Ann's district.〔 At the age of 23 he wrote an autobiographical account of this work, ''Sum Total'', which was later republished.〔 Gosling always maintained a home in Nottingham, whilst being based in Manchester for much of his broadcasting work. 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「Ray Gosling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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