biography
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Isaacs, Sir Jeremy (Israel)
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| Television executive, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became a producer with Granada Television on such current affairs series as What the Papers Say and All Our Yesterdays (1958–63). He later worked on BBC's Panorama (1965), and at Thames Television (1968–78), where he produced The World at War (1975). Later programmes include Ireland: a Television History (1981) and the brutal drama A Sense of Freedom (1981). He served as the first chief executive of Channel 4 (1981–7), vigorously defending its right to offer alternative programming and service minority interests. He became general director of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden (1988–97), and was knighted in 1996. |
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