David Hatch

Sir David Hatch ( born May 7, 1939 † 13 June 2007) was a producer and manager at BBC Radio, where he held many senior positions, including the post of chairman of the Light Entertainment (Radio ), head of BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4 and later Managing Director of BBC Radio.

Education

He attended Queen's College, Cambridge, where he was also a member of the prestigious Cambridge Footlights Club. He was in 1963 a member of the Footlights Revue A Clump of Plinths, which was during the season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival so successful that the Revue from the West End in London under the title Cambridge Circus was taken and later, in September 1964, a tour undertook both to New Zealand as well as on Broadway.

BBC

A BBC radio production of Cambridge Circus, titled I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again was with many actors of the show, including Hatch, to the radio comedy series of the same title. Hatch later invented with the satirical show Week Ending, and produced other radio comedy shows such as Just a Minute. Then he held executive positions of the BBC and created BBC Radio 5

Later career

Hatch left the BBC and became the chairman of the National Consumer Council (1996-2000) and later of the Parole Board (2000-2004) for England and Wales, for which he was knighted in 2003. Later, it caused some consternation in 2003, when he, as a " very dangerous man " designated in a Times interview Tony Martin, the farmer who was convicted of manslaughter.

Hatch was between 1999 and 2004 the chairman of the Services Sound and Vision Corporation ( SSVC ).

Presenter

Hatch was the Chairman of the regular radio quizzes Wireless Wise (1999-2003), produced for Radio 4 of Testbed Productions, and moderated or spoke in other shows, including an edition of Radio Heads (2003), a three-hour comprehensive collection of his radio shows on BBC Radio 7 and Radio 4 Archive Hour 2006, a celebration of the BBC building in London.

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Bibliography

  • Roger Wilmut: From Fringe to Flying Circus - celebrating a unique generation of comedy 1960-1980. London 1980. ISBN 0-413-46950-6
  • Robert Hewison: Footlights! - A hundred years of Cambridge comedy. London 1983. ISBN 0-413-51150-2
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