Journalist and television executive. Born in Berkhamsted, brother of novelist Graham Greene. In 1934 he became chief correspondent in Berlin for the Daily Telegraph. The Nazis deported him, but he was able to get to Warsaw from where he reported on the German invasion. After the war, he led the BBC's East European Service, and then was appointed Director of Administration in London.
He became the BBC's Director General in 1960, where he reflected the social changes of the time by commissioning programmes such as 'Z-Cars', 'That Was the Week That Was', and 'gritty' plays like 'Up the Junction' and 'Cathy Come Home'. He also re-organised the BBC's radio format, and introduced Radio 1, prompted by the popularity of pirate radio.
Mrs Whitehouse called Sir Hugh the person “most responsible for the moral collapse that characterised the 60s and the 70s.”
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