# Fiendishly obscure question: Id this (American?/Canadian?/British?) sports announcer: 1948 London Olympics

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-id-this-american-canadian-british-sports-announcer-1948-london-olympics/957809/1 "2022-01-14T22:18:08Z")

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You can hear the audio [here at about 1:12:37](https://olympics.com/en/original-series/episode/st-moritz-london-1948-official-film-xivth-olympiad-the-glory-of-sport). Raymond Glendenning hands off announcing duties to [Stewart McClussen?]. That’s an approximation of what I’m hearing. Just can’t make out that last name. For all I knew it might be Laurel or Yanny.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-id-this-american-canadian-british-sports-announcer-1948-london-olympics/957809/2 "2022-01-14T22:28:50Z")

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The captions read “[Stewart MacPherson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_MacPherson_(broadcaster))”.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-id-this-american-canadian-british-sports-announcer-1948-london-olympics/957809/3 "2022-01-14T23:05:12Z")

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Well, cool, thanks. Didn’t see captions, but that’s actually the only name I was coming up with that even remotely sounded like what I was hearing.