British Academy Television Awards 1997
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The 1997 British Academy Television Awards
British Academy Television Awards
The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . They have been awarded annually since 1954, and are analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States.-Background:...

 were held on April 29 at the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....

 in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, as a joint ceremony with the British Academy Film Awards
British Academy Film Awards
The British Academy Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . It is the British counterpart of the Oscars. As of 2008, it has taken place in the Royal Opera House, having taken over from the flagship Odeon cinema on Leicester Square...

. To date, it is the last occasion upon which the two sets awards have been given jointly at the same event; from 1998, the Film and Television Awards were given at separate ceremonies, for the first time since 1968.

Winners

  • Best Actor
    • Winner: Nigel Hawthorne
      Nigel Hawthorne
      Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role he won four BAFTA Awards during the 1980s in the...

       — The Fragile Heart (ITV
      ITV
      ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

      )
    • Other nominees: Christopher Eccleston
      Christopher Eccleston
      Christopher Eccleston is an English stage, film and television actor. His films include Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Others, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra...

       — Our Friends in the North
      Our Friends in the North
      Our Friends in the North is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in nine episodes on BBC Two in early 1996...

      (BBC2
      BBC Two
      BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...

      ); Albert Finney
      Albert Finney
      Albert Finney is an English actor. He achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, and has maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television....

       — Karaoke
      Karaoke (play)
      Karaoke is a British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying from cancer of the pancreas.It forms a pair with the serial Cold Lazarus...

      / Cold Lazarus
      Cold Lazarus
      Cold Lazarus is a four-part British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying of cancer of the pancreas....

      (BBC1
      BBC One
      BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

       / Channel 4
      Channel 4
      Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

      ); Peter Vaughan
      Peter Vaughan
      Peter Vaughan is an English character actor, known for many supporting roles in a variety of British film and television productions. He has worked extensively on the stage, becoming known for roles such as police inspectors, Soviet agents and similar parts...

       — Our Friends in the North (BBC2)
  • Best Actress
    • Winner: Gina McKee
      Gina McKee
      Georgina "Gina" McKee is an English actor known for her television roles in Our Friends in the North , The Lost Prince and The Forsyte Saga ; and her portrayal of Bella in the film Notting Hill ....

       — Our Friends in the North (BBC2)
    • Other nominees: Alex Kingston
      Alex Kingston
      Alexandra Elizabeth "Alex" Kingston is an English actress. She is most widely known for her roles as Dr. Elizabeth Corday on the NBC medical drama ER and as River Song in Doctor Who.-Early life and education:...

       — Moll Flanders
      Moll Flanders
      The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722, after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become a recognised novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719...

      (ITV); Helen Mirren
      Helen Mirren
      Dame Helen Mirren, DBE is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.-Early life and family:...

       — Prime Suspect 5 (ITV); Pauline Quirke
      Pauline Quirke
      Pauline Perpetua Quirke is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Sharon in the comedy series Birds of a Feather, alongside her lifelong friend and frequent acting partner Linda Robson...

       — The Scupltress (BBC1)
  • Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
    • Winner: Only Fools and Horses
      Only Fools and Horses
      Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003...

      (BBC
      BBC
      The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

       / BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Absolutely Fabulous
      Absolutely Fabulous
      Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders, based on an original idea by her and Dawn French, and written by Saunders, who plays the leading character. It also stars Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks...

      (BBC / BBC1); Father Ted
      Father Ted
      Father Ted is a comedy series set in Ireland that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4. Written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May...

      (Hat Trick Productions
      Hat Trick Productions
      Hat Trick Productions is a British independent production company that produces television programmes, mainly specialising in comedy.-History:...

       / Channel 4
      Channel 4
      Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

      ); Game On (Hat Trick Productions / BBC2)
  • Best Comedy Performance
    • Winner: David Jason
      David Jason
      Sir David John White, OBE , better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known as the main character Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind In The Willows and as detective Jack...

       — Only Fools and Horses (BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Martin Clunes
      Martin Clunes
      Alexander Martin Clunes is an English actor and comedian. Clunes is perhaps best known for his roles as Gary Strang in Men Behaving Badly, Doctor Martin Ellingham in Doc Martin and the title character in Reggie Perrin....

       — Men Behaving Badly
      Men Behaving Badly
      Men Behaving Badly is a British comedy that was created and written by Simon Nye. It follows the lives of Gary Strang and his flatmates, Dermot Povey and Tony Smart It was first broadcast on ITV in 1992...

      (BBC1); Joanna Lumley
      Joanna Lumley
      Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS is a British actress, voice-over artist, former-model and author, best known for her roles in British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, and Sensitive...

       — Absolutely Fabulous (BBC1); Nicholas Lyndhurst
      Nicholas Lyndhurst
      Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, Gary Sparrow in Goodnight Sweetheart, and as Adam Parkinson in Carla Lane's series Butterflies...

       — Only Fools and Horses (BBC1)
  • Best Drama Serial
    • Winner: Our Friends in the North (BBC / BBC2)
    • Other nominees: The Crow Road
      The Crow Road (TV series)
      The Crow Road was a television miniseries by BBC Scotland in 1996, based faithfully on the complex novel by Scottish novelist Iain Banks. It was directed by Gavin Millar....

      (BBC Scotland
      BBC Scotland
      BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who...

       / Union Pictures Productions / BBC2); The Fragile Heart (Carnival Films
      Carnival Films
      Carnival Films is a British television production company, founded by Brian Eastman in 1978 as Picture Partnership Productions Limited and run by Gareth Neame since 2005. The company swiftly built up a strong reputation as an independent production company of theatre, film and television drama...

       / London Weekend Television
      London Weekend Television
      London Weekend Television was the name of the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties including south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Warwickshire, east Dorset and...

       / ITV); Gulliver's Travels
      Gulliver's Travels
      Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels , is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of...

      (Jim Henson Productions / RHI Entertainment Inc / Channel 4)
  • Best Drama Series
    British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series
    The British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards , the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry...

    • Winner: EastEnders
      EastEnders
      EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

      (BBC / BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Ballykissangel
      Ballykissangel
      Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the UK from 1996 to 2001...

      (Ballykea / BBC Northern Ireland
      BBC Northern Ireland
      BBC Northern Ireland is the main public service broadcaster in Northern Ireland.The organisation is one of the three national regions of the BBC, together with BBC Scotland and BBC Wales. Based at Broadcasting House, Belfast, it provides television, radio, online and interactive television content...

       / World Productions
      World Productions
      World Productions is a British television production company, founded in the early 1990s by acclaimed producer Tony Garnett. The company's first major series was the police drama Between The Lines , and throughout the decade they went on to produce a succession of highly successful drama series...

       / BBC1); Hamish Macbeth
      Hamish Macbeth (TV series)
      Hamish Macbeth is a television series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton . The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the north coast of Scotland. The titular...

      (BBC Scotland
      BBC Scotland
      BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who...

       / Skyline Films / Zenith Entertainment Ltd); This Life
      This Life
      This Life is a BBC television drama that was produced by World Productions and screened on BBC Two. Two series were broadcast in 1996 and 1997 and a reunion special in 2007....

      (World Productions / BBC2)
  • Best Single Drama
    • Winner: Hillsborough (Granada Television
      Granada Television
      Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....

       / ITV)
    • Other nominees: Crossing the Floor
      Crossing the floor
      In politics, crossing the floor has two meanings referring to a change of allegiance in a Westminster system parliament.The term originates from the British House of Commons, which is configured with the Government and Opposition facing each other on rows of benches...

      (??? / BBC2); The Precious Blood (BBC Northern Ireland / BBC2); Some Kind of Life
      Some Kind of Life
      Some Kind of Life is a 1995 TV drama written by Kay Mellor and directed by Julian Jarrold, starring Jane Horrocks and Ray Stevenson .-Synopsis:...

      (Granada Television / ITV)
  • Best News Coverage
    • Winner: Newsnight
      Newsnight
      Newsnight is a BBC Television current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians. Jeremy Paxman has been its main presenter for over two decades....

       — BSE Coverage
      Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
      Bovine spongiform encephalopathy , commonly known as mad-cow disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease in cattle that causes a spongy degeneration in the brain and spinal cord. BSE has a long incubation period, about 30 months to 8 years, usually affecting adult cattle at a peak age onset of...

      (BBC / BBC2)
    • Other nominees: Newsnight — Dunblane Massacre
      Dunblane massacre
      The Dunblane massacre was a multiple murder-suicide which occurred at Dunblane Primary School in the Scottish town of Dunblane on 13 March 1996. Sixteen children and one adult were killed by Thomas Hamilton before he committed suicide.-Timeline of events:...

      (BBC / BBC2); News at Ten — Dunblane Massacre (ITN / ITV); Channel 4 News
      Channel 4 News
      Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982.-Channel 4 News:...

       — Refugee
      Refugee
      A refugee is a person who outside her country of origin or habitual residence because she has suffered persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or because she is a member of a persecuted 'social group'. Such a person may be referred to as an 'asylum seeker' until...

       Crisis in Zaire
      Zaire
      The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers".-Self-proclaimed Father of the Nation:In...

       and Rwanda
      Rwanda
      Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

      (ITN / Channel 4)
  • Best Light Entertainment Performance
    • Winner: John Bird
      John Bird (actor)
      John Bird is an English satirist, actor and comedian.-Early life:Born in Bulwell, Nottingham, England, and educated at High Pavement Grammar School, Nottingham, Bird briefly joined the Socialist Party of Great Britain, while still at school...

       & John Fortune
      John Fortune
      John Fortune is a British satirist, comedian writer and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune. He was educated at Bristol Cathedral School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was to meet and form a lasting friendship with John...

       — Rory Bremner - Who Else?
      Bremner, Bird and Fortune
      Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the longstanding satirical team of John Bird and John Fortune with the satirical impressionist Rory Bremner.The show started in 1999. The fourteenth series...

      / The Long Johns (Channel 4)
    • Other nominees: Caroline Aherne
      Caroline Aherne
      Caroline Mary Aherne is an English comedian and BAFTA winning writer and actress, best known for Mrs Merton and The Royle Family.- Background :...

       — The Mrs Merton Christmas Show (BBC1); Rory Bremner
      Rory Bremner
      Roderick "Rory" Keith Ogilvy Bremner, FKC is a Scottish impressionist, playwright and comedian, noted for his work in political satire...

       — Rory Bremner - Who Else? (Channel 4); Paul Merton
      Paul Merton
      Paul Merton is a British comedian, writer, actor and television presenter. Known for his improvisation skill, his humour is rooted in deadpan, surreal and sometimes dark comedy...

       — Have I Got News For You
      Have I Got News for You
      Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been broadcast since 1990, currently the BBC's longest-ever running television panel show...

      (BBC2)
  • Best Factual Series
    • Winner: The House
      The House (television documentary)
      The House is an award-winning fly on the wall documentary television series in six episodes which showed various behind-the-scenes events at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden...

      (BBC2)
    • Other nominees: Cutting Edge (??? / ???); People's Century
      People's Century
      People's Century is a television documentary series examining the 20th century. It was a joint production of the BBC in the United Kingdom and PBS member station WGBH Boston in the United States. First shown on BBC in 1995, the 26 parts of one hour deal with the socio-economic, political, and...

      (BBC / WGBH
      WGBH-TV
      WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...

       / BBC2); The System
      The System
      The System can refer to:* Any system* Any system of government, law, or bureaucracy: political system. The phrase in this usage can carry negative connotations.* Systema, a Russian martial art...

      (??? / ???)
  • Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
    • Winner: Horizon — Fermat's Last Theorem
      Fermat's Last Theorem
      In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than two....

      (BBC / BBC2)
    • Other nominees: Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras
      Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras
      Tantrums & Tiaras is a 1997 documentary about the musician Sir Elton John directed by his civil partner David Furnish. It was recorded during Elton's tour Made in England in 1995 and includes parts of interviews and concerts. Included in the documentary is a large part of a concert John performed...

      (Rocket Pictures / BBC?); Cutting Edge — The Home (??? / ???); Timewatch
      Timewatch
      Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29th September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual...

       — Remember Aberfan
      Aberfan
      The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.-Mining debris:...

      (BBC / BBC2)
  • Huw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series
    • Winner: Leaving Home
      Leaving Home
      Leaving Home is a drama in two acts by Canadian playwright David French."The work is the first presented of what has come to be known as the Mercer Plays and was responsible not only for introducing a unique Canadian voice to the world, but also for proving that Canadian playwrights could write...

      (??? / ???)
    • Other nominees: A History of British Art (??? / ???); American Visions (??? / ???); Dancing in the Street: A Rock and Roll History (??? / BBC2)
  • Light Entertainment Programme or Series
    • Winner: Shooting Stars
      Shooting Stars
      Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its axing in 2011...

      (BBC / BBC2)
    • Other nominees: The Fast Show
      The Fast Show
      The Fast Show, known as Brilliant in the US, was a BBC comedy sketch show programme that ran for three series from 1994 to 1997 with a special Last Fast Show Ever in 2000. The show's central performers were Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, Mark Williams, John Thomson, Arabella Weir and...

      (BBC / BBC2); Rory Bremner - Who Else? (Kudos Film & Television
      Kudos (production company)
      Kudos Film and Television is a British independent film and television production company. It has produced television series for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, and its productions include Spooks , Hustle, Life on Mars and its spin-off Ashes to Ashes, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard and M.I. High...

       / Channel 4); Ruby Wax Meets
      Ruby Wax
      Ruby Wax is a BAFTA nominated American comedian who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s.-Early life:...

      (BBC / BBC1)
  • Best Talk Show
    • Winner: The Mrs Merton Christmas Show (Granada Television / BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Esther
      Esther Rantzen
      Esther Louise Rantzen CBE is an English journalist and television presenter who is best known for presenting the BBC television series That's Life!, and for her work in various charitable causes. She is founder of the child protection charity ChildLine, and also advocates the work of the Burma...

      (??? / BBC2); Late Review (BBC / BBC2); Weekly Planet (??? / ???)
  • Best Sports / Events Coverage in Real Time
    • Winner: Euro 96 Coverage (BBC / BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Formula One Grand Prix Racing
      Formula One
      Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

      (BBC / BBC2); Monday Night Football
      Football (soccer)
      Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

      (Sky Sports
      Sky Sports
      Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

      ); Remembrance Sunday
      Remembrance Sunday
      In the United Kingdom, 'Remembrance Sunday' is held on the second Sunday in November, which is the Sunday nearest to 11 November Armistice Day. It is the anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War at 11 a.m...

       — The Cenotaph
      (BBC / BBC1)
  • Foreign Programme Award
    • Murder One
  • The Lew Grade
    Lew Grade
    Lew Grade, Baron Grade , born Lev Winogradsky, was an influential Russian-born English impresario and media mogul.-Early years:...

     Award
    • Coronation Street
      Coronation Street
      Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

  • The Dennis Potter
    Dennis Potter
    Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture.-Biography:Dennis Potter was born...

     Award
    • Peter Flannery
      Peter Flannery
      Peter Flannery is a British playwright and screenwriter. He was educated at Bath Spa University and is best known for his work while a resident playwright at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

  • The Alan Clarke
    Alan Clarke
    Alan Clarke was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England.Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today...

     Award
    • Michael Wearing
      Michael Wearing
      Michael Wearing is a British television producer, who has spent much of his career working on various drama productions for the BBC. He is best known as the producer of the highly-acclaimed serials Boys from the Blackstuff and Edge of Darkness , which created for him a reputation as one of...

  • The Richard Dimbleby
    Richard Dimbleby
    Richard Dimbleby CBE was an English journalist and broadcaster widely acknowledged as one of the greatest figures in British broadcasting history.-Early life:...

     Award
    • Robert Hughes
      Robert Hughes
      -Politicians:*Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside , British Labour politician, MP for Aberdeen North*Robert Gurth Hughes , British Conservative politician, MP for Harrow West-Sportsmen:*Robert Hughes , of Stamford FC...

  • Special Awards
    • Charles F. Wheeler
      Charles Wheeler (journalist)
      Sir Charles Cornelius Wheeler CMG was a British journalist and broadcaster. Having joined the BBC in 1947, he became the corporation's longest serving foreign correspondent, serving in the role until his death...

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