Author, broadcaster, director and producer. First Head of Music and
Arts for BBC Television 1965-1967. Resumed the position again from
1975-1981 after an eight year absence in commercial television as a
founder-member of London Weekend Television. For his work as a
director, he has won four Emmy Awards, two British Academy Awards and
as a presenter received the Royal Television Society Silver medal and
Sony Gold Award.
He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Millennium Honors List for his services to Music and Broadcasting.
His wife Christina was a Swedish newsreader and photographer