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Can anyone tl;dr who this is and why he is particularly relevant to him?

I just perused his Wikipedia page and just seems like one of many bbc figures. Perhaps with a bit of scandal but nothing too intense.

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Some of the TV programmes he brought into being are very significant for a UK audience of a certain age (Arena for me). If the ones mentioned in the Wikipedia article don't resonate, there isn't much that will be significant for you.

I remember him as a high level BBC executive in charge of programming, but I believe he was a presenter for a long time before that, concentrating on documentaries and journalistic pieces, particularly on the arts. He had a reputation of being very good at what he did, and I believe the period he was in charge is seen as a bit of a golden era for the BBC, especially for those not from the classical Oxbridge background.

This is some of his work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2010s_British_documen...

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