David Hatch

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Sir David Hatch
JP
Born
David Edwin Hatch

(1939-05-07)7 May 1939
Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died13 June 2007(2007-06-13) (aged 68)
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
, England
Partners
  • Ann Martin
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1964; died 1997)​
  • Mary Clancy
    ​
    (m. 1999)​
Children3

Sir David Edwin Hatch,

JP (7 May 1939 – 13 June 2007)[1][2] was an English broadcaster, involved in production and management at BBC Radio where he held many executive positions, including Head of Light Entertainment (Radio), Controller of BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4 and later managing director of BBC Radio.[3]

Education

Born in Barnsley, he attended St John's School, Leatherhead and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he arrived to study theology but switched to history, and joined the Cambridge Footlights Club.[4] He was a member of the cast of the 1963 Footlights revue A Clump of Plinths, which was so successful during its run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that the revue transferred to the West End of London under the title of Cambridge Circus and later taken on tour to both New Zealand and Broadway in September 1964. Hatch was later a student teacher at Bloxham School, Oxfordshire.[5]

BBC work

A BBC Radio production of Cambridge Circus, entitled

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
.

Some of these overlapped with his earlier executive positions in the BBC: Radio Network Editor, BBC Manchester 1974–78; Head of Light Entertainment (Radio), BBC 1978–80; Controller,

CBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours for services to radio broadcasting.[6]

Hatch was a regular chairman of the radio panel quiz game Wireless Wise (1999–2003), made for BBC Radio 4 by Testbed Productions, and presented or appeared in other programmes including an edition of Radio Heads (2003), a three-hour omnibus collection of his radio programmes on

BBC 7, and a Radio 4 Archive Hour (2006) celebration of the BBC's Broadcasting House
building in London.

Later career

Hatch left the Corporation and became Chairman of the

Parole Board (2000–2004) for England and Wales, for which he was knighted in the 2004 New Year Honours.[7][3] In the latter role in 2003, he described Tony Martin, the farmer convicted of manslaughter, as a "very dangerous man" in an interview for The Times. Hatch's comments were criticized by Martin's supporters.[8][9]

Hatch was also the chairman of SSVC (the

BFBS
Radio and TV.

Hatch was a Fellow of The Radio Academy.[10]

References

  1. ^ Obituary, Daily Telegraph, 17 June 2007. Retrieved on 18 June 2007.
  2. ^ a b Obituary, "Just a Minute" site
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-1-84854-195-5
    .
  4. ISBN 0-413-46950-6
    .
  5. ^ 'A Shining Light', A history of Bloxham School (Simon Batten, 2010), p.79
  6. ^ "No. 53696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1994. p. 9.
  7. ^ "No. 57155". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2003. p. 1.
  8. ^ Ford, Richard (27 May 2003). ""Tony Martin is a dangerous man, says parole chief". The Times. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011.
  9. ^ "Tony Martin 'a dangerous man'". BBC News. 27 May 2003. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  10. ^ The Radio Academy "Fellows" Archived 24 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine

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