Before Hindsight

The Birth of Television

The Heart of a Man

This Jet Age

Genevieve

Grand National Night

Royal Destiny

Mastery of the Air

Himalayan Epic

Atomic Explosion Heard in Russia

Farnborough Air Show 1949

Berlin Air-Lift: The Story of a Great Achievement

Atrocities: The Evidence

London Scrapbook

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

Oxford

Royal Road

S.O.S.

Men of Africa

The Sky’s the Limit

Television Comes to London

Rynox

Sally in Our Alley

Leslie Scott Falconer Mitchell (4 October 1905 – 23 November 1985) was a British actor and broadcaster who was heard on newsreel soundtracks, radio, and television. Raised by his literary uncle William J. Locke and schooled at The King's School, Canterbury, and Chillon College in Switzerland, he began his career as a stage actor in London's West End after a time as a trainee stockbroker. Mitchell was the first voice heard on BBC Television on November 2, 1936, and also gave the inaugural announcement on Associated-Rediffusion, the joint first company to broadcast as part of the ITV network, on 22 September 1955. His voice was perhaps best known from his lengthy relationship with British Movietone News, for which he provided commentary on newsreels throughout the Second World War and into the mid-1970s. Mitchell was appointed a Freeman of the City of London and the Royal Television Society's first honorary member.

Leslie Mitchell