Biografia

7 de maio de 1916 · Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Gales, Reino Unido

14 de março de 1986 · Richmond, Surrey, Inglaterra, Reino Unido (câncer)

Television Publicity Officer

There is an RTS (Royal Television Society) Huw Wheldon Lecture held in his honour annually.

Served as a paratrooper in the British army during WWII and took part in the D-Day invasion in 1944. He was also in the unit that liberated the Nazi death camp at Belsen, a subject he never talked about.

Was cast in a major cameo in Chariots Of Fire but had to pull out because he did not have a Equity card.

To the extent that programs are manufactured and not made, to the extent that programs are even under the risk of being manufactured and not made, and to the extent that the stereotype is only a manufacture in disguise, the industry has failed. The entire industry exists only to make hand-make programs. - Royal Television Society Convention, Cambridge, 1970

On public service broadcasting: To make the good popular, and the popular good.

The crime is not to avoid failure. The crime is not to give triumph a chance.

Ignore the obvious at your peril.