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Hugh Carleton Greene. Credit: National Portrait Gallery
Hugh Carleton Greene

Hugh Carleton Greene

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Till Death Us Do Part. Image shows left to right: Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell), Arthur Blenkinsopp (Eric Sykes). Credit: BBC Features

Comedy Chronicles: Up the polls! - Election campaigns and comedy

Sunday 30th June 2024

Comedy and politics regularly mix, but there has long been a significant hesitation amongst television broadcasters to poke fun during election campaign periods.

Hugh Carleton Greene. Credit: National Portrait Gallery Features

Comedy Chronicles: The heart of the matter - The real battle of Hugh Carleton Greene

Sunday 4th June 2023

The BBC's story is long and varied, but its revolutionary free-thinking approach to television broadcasting in the 1960s is a story that is more often than not only half-told: enter Director-General Sir Hugh Carleton Greene.

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