Michael Bakewell
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Michael Bakewell is a British television producer. He is best known for his work during the 1960s, when he was the first Head of Plays at the BBC after Sydney Newman divided the drama department into separate series, serials and plays divisions in 1963. Later, he produced plays for BBC2's Theatre 625 anthology strand, including John Hopkins's acclaimed Talking to a Stranger series of linked plays. He also worked in radio drama, including adapting The Lord of the Rings into a 1981 radio series for the BBC. He was also the dubbing director for many of Manga Video UK's dubs, e.g., Devilman, Patlabor (Manga PAL version - movies 1 and 2), Tokyo Babylon, Genocyber, Roujin Z, Angel Cop and Violence Jack.
From 1955 until 1972 he was the husband of Joan Bakewell. They had two children together, Matthew and Harriet.
