Hugh Carleton Greene | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/06/2019

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00:01:13 1 Life and career
00:01:22 1.1 Early years
00:03:25 1.2 1945–1960
00:06:04 1.3 BBC director-general
00:09:58 1.4 Later years
00:10:51 1.5 Personal life
00:11:52 1.6 Honours
00:12:33 1.7 Publications
00:13:30 2 Notes, references and sources



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Sir Hugh Carleton Greene  (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British journalist and television executive. He was director-general of the BBC from 1960 to 1969.
After working for newspapers in the 1930s, Greene spent most of his later career with the BBC, rising through the managerial ranks of overseas broadcasting and then news for the main domestic channels. As director-general he led a modernisation of the BBC, increasing its audience in the face of competition from commercial television, which was launched in Britain in 1956 and had initially been more popular than the BBC. He encountered opposition from some politicians and activists opposed to his modernising agenda, but under his leadership the BBC was recognised to be outperforming its commercial rival and was awarded a second television channel (BBC Two) by the British government and authorised to introduce colour television to Britain.
After retiring from the BBC, Greene published several books, one in collaboration with his brother, the novelist Graham Greene, and made television programmes both for the BBC and its commercial rival.