Lorraine Heggessey
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Lorraine Heggessey (born November 16, 1956) is a British television producer and executive, currently the Chief Executive of the production company Talkback Thames. Prior to this, she was the first ever woman to be Controller of BBC One, the primary television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation.Heggessey was educated at a state grammar school in Middlesex and later earned an Upper Second Class BA Honours degree in English Language & Literature from Durham University (Collingwood College), before beginning her career in local newspaper journalism. She worked initially for the Westminster Press Group, where her first job was as a trainee reporter on the Acton Gazette local newspaper.In 1978 she applied for a BBC News traineeship, but was rejected without an interview.
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The BBC and the royal family: those rows in full
New BBC helmsman George Entwistle has been reminded already of the difficult course he must steer through regal rapids.
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BBC's right royal horrible history | Media Monkey
In the light of the BBC's apology to the Queen after security correspondent Frank Gardner revealed her thoughts about Abu Hamza, our thoughts inevitably turn back to the words of former BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival last month. "Beware the royals," she said, when asked about the "worst nightmare" that new director general George Entwistle was yet to have.
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George Entwistle | MediaGuardian 100 2012
His slow ascent to the BBC's top job is now complete – but the former director of Vision faces tricky challenges in his new role.
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Media Talk: Elisabeth Murdoch's 2012 MacTaggart lecture - video
John Plunkett is joined by the Guardian's Dan Sabbagh and independent producers Kenton Allen and Lorraine Heggessey to run the rule over the keynote speech.
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Lorraine Heggessey criticises BBC commissioning process
Former BBC1 controller tells Edinburgh TV Festival that management at television centre should be significantly trimmed.
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BBC sees in-house production as obstacle, says creative chief
Pat Younge hopes new director general George Entwistle will put 'creativity back at the heart' of corporation.
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Lorraine Heggessey leads management buyout of Boomerang Plus
Former BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey will return to television production, after management buy-out of Welsh firm.
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Former BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey returns to TV production
Former BBC1 controller and Talkback Thames chief executive Lorraine Heggessey is to return to the independent sector with the launch of a new production company, Boom Pictures.
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Does Blue Peter's CBBC move mean kids' television is being ghettoised?
For some it was an act of savagery on a par with the vandalism of the Blue Peter garden. The 54-year-old teatime favourite, along with the rest of the BBC's children's programming, will disappear from BBC1 and BBC2, tumbling down the EPG to be confined to its digital channels CBBC and CBeebies.
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The 10 best Blue Peter clips
From John Noakes on a bobsleigh to Bacon's departure, here are 10 BP memories from the analogue days.
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