Ian McIntyre
Ian McIntyre | |
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Born | 9 December 1931[1] Banchory, Scotland |
Died | 19 April 2014 (aged 82) |
Ian McIntyre (9 December 1931 – 19 April 2014) was a British BBC Radio producer, journalist, broadcaster and author. who was Controller of BBC Radio 4 from 1976 to 1978 and then Controller of BBC Radio 3 between 1978 and 1987.[2]
After joining the
Early life
Ian McIntyre attended
After graduating from Cambridge in 1953 Ian McIntyre spent a postgraduate year at The
Ian McIntyre spent much of the 1960s working at the Conservative Central Office in Scotland, and stood unsuccessfully as a member of parliament against David Steel.[3][6]
BBC career
Analysis
Ian McIntyre returned to the BBC as a freelancer making documentaries around the world, initially for Radio 3. At the tail end of the 1960s, his old friend and colleague Tony Whitby – then controller of Radio 4 – asked him to present a new series of current affairs programmes. McIntyre stated in 1999 that Tony Whitby proposed a remit to provide "serious current affairs broadcasting...that...should be a sort of demonstration of good faith to the listener that there were going to be serious things done".[3] The brief of the programme was to "make them challenging, make them interesting, and make them amusing if you can". Thus in 1970 Ian McIntyre became the founder presenter of Analysis.[7][8][9]
Radio 4
In 1976 Ian McIntyre was appointed Controller of
In 1978 he commissioned Fritz Spiegl to produce the Radio 4 UK Theme, an arrangement of traditional British melodies to signify Radio 4 as a service which, from its move from medium wave to 1500 metres/200 kiloHertz long wave on 23 November 1978, would for the first time broadcast a unified service to the whole United Kingdom (i.e. without the regional opt-outs which it had inherited from the old Home Service in 1967).
Radio 3
McIntyre was moved sideways to become controller of Radio 3 in 1978. According to his colleague, Howard Newby, this was "to create smoother waters at Radio 4".[14] He remained at Radio 3 for nine years. During his tenure, relations with several departments, especially the Music Division became uncomfortable; financial cuts at the BBC hit Radio 3 hard in 1980 and an internal paper recommended the disbandment of several of the BBC orchestras.[15] Industrial action by musicians delayed the start of the Proms after redundancies in the Music Division.[16]
In 1987 a decision was taken to merge the positions of Controller, Music (held by John Drummond who had also been running the Proms), and Controller, Radio 3 (held by McIntyre).[17] Drummond was appointed and McIntyre left the BBC shortly afterwards.[18]
Later life
After leaving the BBC Ian McIntyre authored a number of biographical books including
Publications
Books
- Proud Doers: Israel After Twenty Years, ISBN 0-563-08329-8
- Dogfight: The Transatlantic Battle Over Airbus, ISBN 0-275-94278-3[5]
- The Expense of Glory: Life of John Reith, ISBN 0-00-638351-3
- Dirt & Deity: A Life of Robert Burns, ISBN 0-00-215964-3
- Garrick, ISBN 0-7139-9328-6
- Robert Burns: A Life, Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001, ISBN 1-56649-205-X[20]
- Joshua Reynolds: The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy,
- Hester: The remarkable life of Dr Johnson's 'Dear Mistress',
- Robert Burns: A Life (revised edition),
Articles
- Johnson and Garrick: the Ninth Annual Johnson Society Lecture[30]
- Book review: In the highest degree odious – A W Brian Simpson[31]
References
- ^ Cockburn, Paul F. (22 April 2014). "Ian McIntyre". The Herald. Glasgow. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ^ a b Constable & Robinson publishers' mini biography
- ^ a b c d Bournemouth University BBC Radio 4 Analysis Archive Project Archived 29 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Penguin Books publishers' mini biography". Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ a b Dogfight: The Transatlantic Battle Over Airbus
- ^ BBC Analysis mini biography
- ^ BBC Analysis 40th birthday
- ^ Analysis at forty – Hugh Chignell
- ^ Transcript of The Secret History of Analysis, BBC
- ^ Elmes, pp.33–34
- ^ Elmes, p.33
- ^ Elmes, p.34
- Daily Telegraph, 25 January 2006
- ^ Carpenter, p.298
- ^ Carpenter, p.302
- ^ Carpenter, pp.306–307
- ^ Carpenter, p.320
- ^ Carpenter, p.322
- ^ "Former Radio 4 boss Ian McIntyre dies, aged 82". BBC News. 20 April 2014.
- ^ Robert Burns: A Life
- ^ Sense, not sensibility – The Guardian review by Andrew Motion
- ^ More respected than admired –The Spectator review[permanent dead link]
- ^ Hester: The remarkable life of Dr Johnson's 'Dear Mistress'
- Sunday Timesreview by Frances Wilson
- ^ Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr Johnson's 'Dear Mistress' – The Times review by Anne Sebba
- Daily Telegraphreview
- ^ A prickly character – Spectator review by Kate Chisholm[permanent dead link]
- ^ A Light-Blue Stocking – London Review of Books review by Helen Deutsch
- ^ Robert Burns: A Life
- ^ Johnson and Garrick: the Ninth Annual Johnson Society Lecture, March 2002 Archived 24 December 2012 at archive.today
- ^ The masseuse as national threat – The Independent, 2 January 1993
- Bibliography
- Carpenter, Humphrey, The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3, 1946–1996, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996 ISBN 0-297-81830-9
- Elmes, Simon, And Now on Radio 4, London: Arrow Books, 2008