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Alasdair Milne

Alasdair Milne

Actor, Producer, Director

Born October 8, 1930 in India

Died January 8, 2013

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Alasdair Milne worked at the BBC for 34 years and rose through the ranks to achieve the top job as Director-General.

He was educated at Winchester College and Oxford University. He joined the BBC as a general trainee and worked on the current affairs series Tonight (1957), the groundbreaking satire That Was the Week That Was (1962) and The Great War (1964). He later became Controller of BBC Scotland and in the 1970s he served as BBC Director of Programmes and Managing Director of BBC Television. During this period he banned the controversial Dennis Potter play Brimstone and Treacle (1976) and oversaw the acclaimed Shakespeare productions on BBC Two.

In 1982 he replaced Ian Trethowan as Director-General of the BBC. Milne's tenure lasted for five difficult years which saw the BBC under increasing pressure from Margaret Thatcher's government over programmes such as the Nationwide (1969) general election special with the prime minister in 1983, in which she was questioned by a member of the public over the sinking of the General Belgrano in the Falklands War, the libel action brought by Conservative MPs regarding the Panorama (1953) episode "Maggie's Militant Tendency", broadcast in 1984, the Real Lives interview with Martin McGuinness in 1985, the BBC's coverage of the United States' bombing of Libya and the Secret Society programme about the Zircon spy satellite. In January 1987, Milne was forced to resign by the BBC's Board of Governors, which brought an unhappy end to a long career at the BBC.

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Actor

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Type

Year

Drama out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today Poster

Drama out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today Documentary2020Self - Managing Director, BBC Television

The Falklands Play Row TV Special2002Self - BBC Director General 1982-1987

Auntie: The Inside Story of the BBC Mini-Series1997Self - Executive Producer, That Was The Week That Was

Director: Alan Clarke Poster

Director: Alan Clarke Documentary1991Self

Did You See..? Poster

Did You See..? TV Series1980Self - Contributor

Look Here TV Series1978Self

Arena TV Series1975Self

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture Poster

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture TV Series1972Self - Host

Producer

9

Type

Year

In the Best Possible Taste TV Special2007

The Discovery of Television Documentary1966

The Last Invasion Poster

The Last Invasion TV Movie1966

The Great War Poster

The Great War Mini-Series1964

Tonight Railways TV Movie1963

That Was the Week That Was Poster

That Was the Week That Was TV Series1962

Tonight TV Series1957

This Week Poster

This Week TV Series1956

Westward Ho! TV Series1953

Director

2

Type

Year

In the Best Possible Taste TV Special2007

Tonight TV Series1957

Editor

1

Tonight TV Series1957

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