• Sir Hugh Carleton Greene KCMG OBE (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British television executive and journalist. He was director-general of the...
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  • in 1963 with a letter to the BBC requesting to see Hugh Greene, the BBC's Director-General. Greene was out of the country at the time, so she accepted...
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  • published anthologies by Hugh Greene, younger brother of author Graham Greene and the former director-general of the BBC. Greene is credited on the programme...
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  • Sherlock Holmes is a series of anthologies of detective stories edited by Hugh Greene, a former Director General of the BBC. Some of the stories were adapted...
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  • with Hugh Greene, 1957) Reflections on Travels With My Aunt (1989) Why the Epigraph? (1989) Graham Greene: A Life in Letters (ed. Richard Greene, 2007)...
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  • was the older brother of the novelist Graham Greene and the broadcaster and BBC executive Sir Hugh Greene. He was educated at Berkhamsted School, where...
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    Director-General Sir Hugh Greene that the BBC should not be bound by its charter to be impartial on issues of racism, which Greene and the producers of...
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  • consistently received the backing of the director-general of the BBC, Sir Hugh Greene. Horne died suddenly in 1969; the BBC decided that Round the Horne could...
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    1959 7 years Knighted 1 January 1960, after stepping down as DG 7 Sir Hugh Greene 1960 1969 9 years Knighted 1964, during his term as DG 8 Sir Charles...
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  • Pressburger (1981) Andrzej Wajda (1982) Richard Attenborough (1983) Hugh Greene (1984) Sam Spiegel (1984) Jeremy Isaacs (1985) Steven Spielberg (1986)...
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    the Plunket Greene brothers, Richard and David, and of which Lygon was also president club, David Plunket Greene was a good friend of Hugh Lygon. He was...
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    Hugh, became Director-General of the BBC, and his elder brother, Raymond, an eminent physician and mountaineer. His parents, Charles Henry Greene and...
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  • Harston House. He was also the uncle of Hugh Greene, who served as Director-General of the BBC, and Raymond Greene, the eminent physician and mountaineer...
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    broken glass and smashed-up woodwork. The Daily Telegraph correspondent, Hugh Greene, wrote of events in Berlin: Mob law ruled in Berlin throughout the afternoon...
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  • with Oliver Whitley, Chief Assistant to the BBC's director general, Sir Hugh Greene. Whitley responded: "The best advice that could be given to coloured...
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  • occupation of Czechoslovakia. The first Head of the BBC German Service was Hugh Greene. Other early leadership included Lindley Fraser, formerly professor of...
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    International Film Festival. She was married to Günter Neumann and later to Sir Hugh Greene. Robert and Bertram (1939) Fireworks (1954) I Was an Ugly Girl (1955)...
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    influence on local regional broadcasters. NDR cites the influence of Hugh Greene on the early years of their organisation. After the creation of individual...
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  • Berkhamsted School, where his uncle, Charles Greene, was headmaster and where his cousins, Graham Greene and Hugh Greene, were also pupils. He went up to Wadham...
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  • leading up to the outbreak of war. Interviewees include Konrad Morgen, Hugh Greene, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, Werner Pusch [de], Christabel Bielenberg...
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    David Frost (category People educated at St Hugh's School, Woodhall Spa)
    the programme as a means of sabotage. After the BBC's Director General Hugh Greene instructed that the repeats should be abandoned, TW3 returned to being...
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    Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming and vulnerable romantic leading...
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    the population of the area. The British Control Commission appointed Hugh Greene to manage the creation of public service broadcasting in their Zone....
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    Pressburger (1981) Andrzej Wajda (1982) Richard Attenborough (1983) Hugh Greene (1984) Sam Spiegel (1984) Jeremy Isaacs (1985) Steven Spielberg (1986)...
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  • part of Whitehouse, Alun Armstrong her husband Ernest, and Hugh Bonneville plays Sir Hugh Greene, the Director-General of the BBC, who is taken as embodying...
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  • Pressburger (1981) Andrzej Wajda (1982) Richard Attenborough (1983) Hugh Greene (1984) Sam Spiegel (1984) Jeremy Isaacs (1985) Steven Spielberg (1986)...
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  • to undermine the radical, questioning agenda of Director-General Sir Hugh Greene. Ironically, Wilson had attacked the appointment of Hill as Chairman...
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  • a return to a more cautious approach after the radicalism of Sir Hugh Carleton Greene. Curran also suffered criticism from Wilson, at that time the leader...
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    Pressburger (1981) Andrzej Wajda (1982) Richard Attenborough (1983) Hugh Greene (1984) Sam Spiegel (1984) Jeremy Isaacs (1985) Steven Spielberg (1986)...
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  • Quatermass Experiment, turned them down. The Director-General of the BBC, Sir Hugh Greene, intervened and arranged a £3,000 ex gratia payment to Kneale in recognition...
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