Stuart Clink Hood was a Scottish novelist, translator and a former British television producer and Controller of BBC Television.
11 Facts About Stuart Hood
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Stuart Hood's father was an infant school headmaster, firstly in Edzell and then in Montrose.
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Stuart Hood spent a year in Italy as a prisoner of war before joining the partisans.
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From 1961 until 1963, Stuart Hood was the Controller of the BBC Television Service.
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Stuart Hood's tenure saw the launch of innovative programming such as on the police drama Z-Cars, the satire That Was the Week That Was and the influential science fiction programme Doctor Who, as well as the appearance of the first female newscaster, Nan Winton.
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Stuart Hood became the overall Controller of BBC Television in 1963 with the preparations for the launch of the minority channel BBC2, with his former assistant Donald Baverstock working under him to Control BBC1 and Michael Peacock doing the same for the new channel.
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Stuart Hood was active in the ACTT union and was a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party between 1973 and 1978.
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Stuart Hood gained a reputation as a translator, beginning with Ernst Junger's On the Marble Cliffs in 1946.
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Stuart Hood translated Erich Fried, Aldo Busi, Dario Fo, Dino Buzzati, Goffredo Parise and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Stuart Hood wrote several books that analyze and critique the broadcasting industry, including A Survey of Television, The Mass Media, Radio and Television, Questions of Broadcasting with Garret O'Leary, Behind the Screens: The Structure of British Television, and On Television with Thalia Tabary-Peterssen.
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Stuart Hood wrote some more novels, including A Storm From Paradise, The Upper Hand and A Den of Foxes.