Lorraine Heggessey

Lorraine Heggessey
Born
Lorraine Sylvia Heggessey

(1956-11-16) 16 November 1956 (age 67)
EducationVyners Grammar School
Alma materCollingwood College, Durham (BA)
Employer(s)BBC
Talkback Thames
TitleController 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.

  1. ^ Hyde, Maggie (15 September 2000). "Two Halves of a Zodiac Coin at the BBC" (Requires free registration). Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
  2. ^ 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.