John Birt

John Birt, Baron Birt (born 10 December 1944), served as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1992 to 2000, having previously been deputy director-general since 1987. Sir John was awarded the life peerage in 1999, and took his seat in March 2000.

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Birt was born in Liverpool and educated at St Mary's College, Liverpool and St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he studied engineering and gained a third-class degree.

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Between 1966 and 1971 he was a Current Affairs Producer at Granada Television after which he worked at London Weekend Television (LWT), and having created Weekend World, he was the programmes founding editor. Subsequently, Birt was head of current affairs and then controller of Features and Current Affairs. By this time, Birt had formed a long-standing animousity with Michael Grade, then a colleague. In the mid-'seventies in a sabbatical away from LWT, he produced David Frost's interviews with Richard Nixon, returning to LWT as Director of Programmes from 1982; in particular during this period he was responsible for the revival in the career of Cilla Black, a life-long friend. Birt started working for the BBC in 1987 as deputy Director General http://www.speakers.co.uk/Retro/5355.htm.

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