Harman Grisewood

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Harman Grisewood (1903-1997) was an English radio actor, radio and television executive, novelist and non-fiction writer. He acted as literary executor to the poet David Jones, a lifelong friend.

He was educated at Ampleforth College and Worcester College, Oxford. He joined the young BBC not long after graduating in 1927.[1]

He was controller of the BBC Third Programme from 1948 to 1952. He is credited with the idea in 1966 for The Money Programme[2].

The BBC presenter Freddie Grisewood was a cousin.

[edit] Works

  • Broadcasting and Society: Comments from a Christian Standpoint (1949)
  • David Jones, Epoch and Artist: Selected Writings (1959) editor
  • The Recess (1963) novel
  • The Last Cab on the Rank (1964) novel
  • David Jones: Writer and Artist (1965)
  • One Thing at a Time (1968) autobiography
  • The Painted Kipper: A Study of the Spurious in the Contemporary Scene (1970)
  • David Jones, The Dying Gaul and Other Writings (1978) novel
  • David Jones, The Roman Quarry and Other Sequences (1981) editor with RenĂ© Hague
  • Strategem (1987) novel

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Georgetown University - Harman Grisewood Papers: Collection Description
  2. ^ BBC NEWS | Business | Forty years of The Money Programme

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