Janice Hadlow

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Janice Hadlow is the current controller of the BBC television channel BBC Four.^[1]

Hadlow started her media career with the BBC in 1986 as a production trainee.^[1] For two years between 1987 and 1989 she was a producer for BBC Radio 4 before moving to television. She worked in the BBC's Music and Arts department between 1993 and 1995 before become joint-head of the History department.^[1]

In 1999 Hadlow moved to Channel 4 where she became Head of History, Art and Religion.^[1] She later became Head of Specialist Factual. She returned to the BBC as Controller of BBC Four after five years. She specialises in commissioning programmes concerning factual genres such as history, science and religion. Among the television shows she has helped create include Simon Schama's A History of Britain and David Starkey's The Six Wives of Henry VIII.^[1]

In 2004 The Observer included Hadlow in a list of 80 young people who they believed would shape people's lives in the early 21st Century.^[2]