Alasdair Milne(1930-2013)

He was the Director-General of the BBC from 1982-1987. He was forced to resign in January of 1987 after a period of pressure from the Conservative government, who perceived a left-wing bias in the corporation's direction and programming content during his tenure.

[in 2004] It just seems to me that the television service has largely been run by women for the last four to five years and they don't seem to have done a great job of work. There was no innovation; constant makeovers and far too many cookery and gardening programmes. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I think the BBC has to pull its socks up quite considerably. I have nothing against women - I've worked with them all my life.