Betty Willingale
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Betty Willingale is a British television producer, formerly a script editor, who is best known for her work on BBC TV drama adaptations of classic literature.
She made her name at the BBC as a script editor in the 1960s and went on to work on key BBC drama series and serials in the 1970s, including North and South and I, Claudius. She went on to form a strong working partnership with producer Jonathan Powell, script editing many of Powell's most successful drama serials including the hit adaptations of A Christmas Carol, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Barchester Chronicles and The Old Men at the Zoo.
She was eventually given the chance to produce the BBC adaptation of Mansfield Park in 1983, later going on to produce the critically acclaimed adaptations Tender Is the Night as well as Bleak House and Fortunes of War, both of which earned her BAFTA nominations.
She continues to work as a Consultant Producer on the ITV detective drama Midsomer Murders.
