George Auckland

George Auckland is a BBC executive who has worked on some of the key educational landmarks in British interactive media including the BBC Micro computer and the BBC Networking Club. He also set up the BBC's first web production unit which was responsible for award winning websites such as Teletubbies, Bitesize, and produced many of the BBC's early TV programmes about home computing and the Internet.

George Auckland graduated from Durham University with a Degree in Applied Physics in 1969 he then joined the BBC as a trainee Film Editor in October that year. He became a TV producer and worked on many programmes from Blue Peter to a whole range of award-winning Adult education programmes including Johnny Ball's Think of a Number. In December 1989 he received a Royal Television Society award for Take Nobody's Word For It (Vermeer episode) with Hendrik Ball, the award was in the "adult/continuing education general audience (1988)" category.

In spring 1996 George helped create the BBC Education Website, and in 1999 became Head of a new department: Digital Media, which won the Royal Television Society, Educational Television, 1999 Judge's Award in (received in 2000) for BBC Education Online. He currently runs the Innovations Unit within [http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningoverview/ BBC Learning] .

In 2007 he received the 2006 RTS Lifetime Achievement Award [Lifetime Achievement Award [http://www.rts.org.uk/servedoc.asp?filename=Awards_Archive_January_2008.doc RTS Education Awards, 2007] ] at the RTS Educational Awards.

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