Television executive who led the launch of BBC Two in 1964 When Michael Peacock, who has died aged 90 of cancer, joined the BBC in 1952, it was an institution notoriously resistant to change. Six years later he made his most lasting contribution to the corporation's culture. He and his colleague Donald Baverstock were commissioned by Sir Hugh Greene, the director general, to write a report on BBC News - widely viewed as stuffy and conventional when compared with the viewer-friendlier output of I...
Television executive who led the launch of BBC Two in 1964 When Michael Peacock, who has died aged 90 of cancer, joined the BBC in 1952, it was an institution notoriously resistant to change. Six years later he made his most lasting contribution to the corporation's culture. He and his colleague Donald Baverstock were commissioned by Sir Hugh Greene, the director general, to write a report on BBC News - widely viewed as stuffy and conventional when compared with the viewer-friendlier output of I...
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