Marmaduke hussey biography of george michael
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Chairmen of the BBC
Image: The BBC Chairman's Room at Broadcasting House in 1936
Lord Gainford
Chairman of the British Broadcasting Company 1922-1927
Lord Gainford of Headlam, Joseph Albert Pease, (1860-1943) worked in the family coal and iron business before entering Parliament as a frikostig. He served in Lloyd George’s Government as President of the Board of Education and as Postmaster-General. In 1922 he was appointed as the BBC's first Chairman, when it was the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. After the British Broadcasting Corporation was formed in 1927 he continued as Vice-Chairman, and then left for the Federation of British Industries.
Earl of Clarendon
Chairman 1927-30
George Herbert Hyde Villiers, Sixth Earl of Clarendon, (1877-1955) was the first chairman of British Broadcasting Corporation. His political career included serving as chief Conservative whip in Lords. Named 'Mussolini' by some newspapers, he clashed with John Reith (who referred to h
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Lady Susan Hussey's influential late husband: Former chairman of the BBC Marmaduke Hussey was horrified bygd Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana (and is even portrayed on The Crown)
Lady Susan Hussey stepped down from the royal household on Wednesday after she allegedly refused to believe black domestic abuse campaigner Ngozi Fulani was British and asked her: 'What part of Africa are you from?'
Her comments - made at a reception organised by Queen Consort Camilla - plunged Buckingham Palace into fresh allegations of racism, after Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle made accusations in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021.
But Lady Susan, who was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II for decades and retained by King Charles III following his mother's death, is not the only controversial member of her family to hit headlines.
The 83-year-old is the widow of Marmaduke Hussey, former chairman of the BBC who passed away in 2006.
During the 10 years he chaired th
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Sackings, secrecy and sex: Pinkoes and Traitors
Writers of contemporary media history need to be brave. They also, of course, want to be read. Professor Jean Seaton, the official BBC historian, has a crisp style, a fine grasp of the period 1974-87 and has authored an absorbing book, with the power to annoy and stimulate debate.
As the title, Pinkoes and Traitors (taken from the Dear Bill letters of Private Eye), announces, the prose is leavened by light touches.
She describes the BBC alighting on the diplomatic Ian Trethowan as a potential director-general (he served 1977-82) this way: "Treating him like a queen bee grub, the BBC began to feed him royal jelly", consciously expanding his experience.
All of this is a far cry from Lord (Asa) Briggs, whom Seaton follows. He wrote voluminous doorstopper histories.
She compresses her account of what were seriously dark years into 384 pages: 13 chapters, with conclusions, from "Mrs Thatcher and the BBC: the Conservative Athene" to