- Stuart Hood
Stuart Hood (born
17 December 1915 ) is a Scottishnovelist ,translator and a former British television producer and Controller of the BBC's most popular television network,BBC One . He was born inEdzell ,Angus ,Scotland .Life
Hood's father was an infant school headmaster, firstly in Edzell and then in Montrose. After school he attended the
University of Edinburgh between 1934 and 1938. [cite journal |last= Hood |first= Stuart |coauthors=Bob Lumley |year=1988 |month= |title=Keeping Faith: An Interview with Stuart Hood |journal=Edinburgh Review |volume=78-9, p175]During the
Second World War he served in the British Army as an Intelligence Officer. He spent a year in Italy as a prisoner of war before joining the partisans. [Edinburgh Review, 1988, p183]From 1961 until 1963 Hood was the Controller of the BBC Television Service. [Edinburgh Review, 1988, p195] He became the overall Controller of BBC Television in 1963 with the preparations for the launch of
BBC Two , with his former assistantDonald Baverstock working under him to ControlBBC One andMichael Peacock doing the same for the new channel. [cite web| publisher= BBC|accessdate = 2008-06-03|title=When the lights went out|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bbc2/article.shtml]On resigning from the BBC, he worked briefly at
Rediffusion London as Controller.During the 1970s he was Professor of Film and Television at the
Royal Academy of Art . [cite web| publisher= Museum of Broadcast Communication|accessdate = 2008-06-03|title=Hood, Stuart: British Media Executive/Producer/Educator|url = http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/H/htmlH/hoodstuart/hoodstuart.htm]He was active in the
ACTT union and was a member of theSocialist Labour League between 1973 and 1978. [Edinburgh Review, 1988, p202]Writings
Hood is known as a translator, beginning with
Ernst Jünger 's "On the Marble Cliffs " in 1946. [Edinburgh Review, 1988, p186] He also translatedErich Fried ,Dario Fo andPier Paolo Pasolini .He has also written the novels "A Storm From Paradise" (1985) and "The Upper Hand" (1987).
References
External links
* [http://www.birth-of-tv.org/birth/assetView.do?asset=BIRTHOFTELEV19001___1112802336664 BBC video interview with Hood, 1961]
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