Lorraine Heggessey | |
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.jpg) Heggessey at the 66th Annual Peabody Awards | |
| Born | Lorraine Sylvia Heggessey 16 November 1956 Hillingdon, Middlesex, England |
| Education | Vyners Grammar School |
| Alma mater | Collingwood College, Durham (BA) |
| Employer(s) | BBC Talkback Thames |
| Title | Controller of BBC One (2000–2005) |
Lorraine Sylvia Heggessey (born 16 November 1956[1]) is a British television producer and executive. From 2000 until 2005, she was the first woman to be Controller of BBC One, the primary television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation.[2] She has also served as the Chief Executive of the production company Talkback Thames. Until October 2019 Heggessey was the Chief Executive of The Royal Foundation.
- ^ Hyde, Maggie (15 September 2000). "Two Halves of a Zodiac Coin at the BBC" (Requires free registration). Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
- ^ Byrne, Ciar (15 February 2005). "The first woman at the helm of BBC1 quits to go commercial". The Independent. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 20 January 2007.