D. G. Bridson

Douglas Geoffrey Bridson (21 August 1910 – 19 October 1980), commonly known as D. G. Bridson, was a radio producer and author who became the "cultural boss of the BBC".[1]

Douglas Geoffrey Bridson
Born(1910-08-21)21 August 1910
Heaton Norris, Stockport, Cheshire, England
Died19 October 1980(1980-10-19) (aged 70)
Camden, London, England
NationalityUnited Kingdom
OccupationRadio producer and author

Douglas Bridson (he was known to all as Geoffrey) started as a freelance writer then joined BBC radio as a Feature Programmes Assistant for their North Region in 1935. He became the influential Programme Editor for Arts, Sciences, and Documentaries (Sound) from 1964 to 1967 and retired in 1969, having written or produced more than 800 programmes during his career.[1] In his poems he made frequent reference to the Isle of Man where he had family. Of interest to all theatre people is the close relationship he had with Joan Littlewood,

Works
  • The March of the 45 (1936)[2]
  • The Bomb (1954), a documentary on the consequences of a nuclear war.[3]
  • My People and Your People (1959), a "West Indian Ballad Opera" written with additional material from Jamaican writer Andrew Salkey[3][4]
  • The Negro in America (1964)[5]
  • America since the Bomb (1966)[5]
gollark: Well, things which can cooperate with other things in common situations attain more points.
gollark: Mostly.
gollark: It is, yes.
gollark: The iterated version has them do it repeatedly, with knowledge of each other's previous moves.
gollark: Essentially, each round, each player either cooperates or defects.If both cooperate, they attain 2 points. If one cooperates and the other defects, the defector attains 3 points and the cooperator attains 0 points. If both defect, they attain 1 point. Different versions use different actual numbers but the concept is the same if the relative orderings are preserved.

References
  1. Bridson Mss., The Lilly Library
  2. Tim Crook (1999), Radio drama, pp. 204–205, ISBN 978-0-415-21602-9
  3. Hendy, David (2007). Life on Air: A History of Radio Four. Oxford University Press. p. 39. ISBN 9780199248810.
  4. Stephen Bourne (19 July 2005). Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television. Continuum. pp. 117–118. ISBN 978-0-8264-7898-6.
  5. John Haffenden (1997), W.H. Auden, p. 145, ISBN 978-0-415-15940-1


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