Will Wyatt

Will Wyatt (born 7 January 1942) was formerly Managing Director, BBC Television (1991-6) and Chief Executive BBC Broadcast (1996-9). He was later a company director and media consultant.

Wyatt was born in Oxford and educated at S.S.Philip and James primary school and Magdalen College School, Oxford before winning a scholarship to and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He began work as a trainee journalist on the Sheffield Telegraph and joined BBC Radio News as a sub-editor in 1965 before moving to BBC Television, working for the Presentation Department as producer of Points of View, The Fifties and Storyteller, before joining the daily arts and media programme Late Night Line-Up

He then originated and edited Edition, presented by Kenneth Alsop, The Book Programme with Robert Robinson and Don't Quote Me. He produced a number of documentaries including All the Buildings Fit to Print about Nikolaus Pevsner and was executive producer of They've Shot Kennedy, Good Night and Good Luck and The Scars of Autumn. He produced B. Traven: A Mystery Solved and wrote a real life literary detective story The Man Who Was B. Traven (Cape, 1980). In USA this was published as The Secret of the Sierra Madre (Doubleday)

By 1978 he was Assistant Head of the Presentation Department, whose output included The Old Grey Whistle Test, The Hollywood Greats and Barry Norman's Film... programme. From 1981 to 1988 he was Head of Documentary Features, starting 40 Minutes, Crimewatch, Food and Drink, Comrades, All Our Working Lives, The Duty Men, Queens' - A Cambridge College, Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days and negotiated and executive produced the documentary Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of the Queen, produced by Edward Mirzoeff, the highest rating documentary ever shown by the BBC.

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