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...generations the BBC, known affectionately to all Britons as "Auntie BBC," has been - first via radio, then television - the sonorous, serious, slightly stuffy voice of England's Oxbridge-accented Establishment. Until, that is, the siren of commercial television sauntered on the scene nine years ago swinging her pocketbook in the guise of the ITV network and luring away the BBC's viewers. Auntie retaliated by taking on in 1960 a new leading man to spruce up her image: Hugh Carleton Greene, now 54, brother of Novelist Graham Greene, as director general. Greene brought in fresh-and often brash...
Born. To Winston Spencer Churchill, 24, Sir Winston's eldest grandson and namesake, now a BBC broadcaster, and Minnie d'Erlanger, 24, daughter of BOAC's former chairman; their first child, a son; in London...
...Fascists showed up-though Spoiler Jordan sent an agent in blackface to the Leyton town hall, where the interloper declared himself, in crude parody of Negro vernacular, to be "de noo candidate, Walker Gordon." And though everyone was protesting that race was not an issue in Leyton, the BBC hastily canceled a television screening of a play called Fable, which shows a future Britain ruled by colored people, in which whites are the victims of minority discrimination. Scheduled for election eve, the program was postponed for a week...
...matchless recordings of Beethoven's symphonies under Conductor Herbert von Karajan. Ironically, the Philharmonia's subsequent financial troubles resulted in large measure from a musical heritage of which Londoners are justifiably proud. In all, the city boasts five first-rank orchestras, of which only one-the BBC Symphony-is financially secure. The once great Royal Philharmonic, which has skidded deeply into debt since Sir Thomas Beecham's death in 1961, is barely alive...
Nervous about his debut on the Home Service? "Is it likely?" sniffed Winston Churchill, 24. "That hardly runs in the family," considering that his famous grandfather gave the BBC some of its finest hours in World War II. Leaving as little as possible to Mendelian chance, young Churchill started off his daily lunchtime news-and-interviews half hour by asking his first guest, Veteran Pundit Alistair Cooke, "What tips can you give me?" "If you try to be somebody else," cautioned Cooke, "you're lost." So the fledgling commentator skipped politics next day, and interviewed Humorist Malcolm Muggeridge...