Jana Bennett, Previous Director of BBC Television, Dies at 66
As a trainer earning a doctorate, Mr. Bennett moved the household normally. Jana and her four sisters put in time in Kansas, Minnesota and New Hampshire just before the relatives moved to England and settled in East Sussex, when Jana was 13.
She went to St. Anne’s College, Oxford College, and graduated in 1977 with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics. (An amateur singer, she was recruited to join a band by yet another Oxford scholar and a long term key minister, Tony Blair.) She earned her master’s degree in global relations from the London School of Economics in 1978. The following year, she joined the BBC as a news trainee.
Her early journalistic operate bundled information documentaries, like “The Disappeared: Voices from a Secret War,” about the repressive armed service regime in Argentina in the late 1970s and 1980s. She and John Simpson, a fellow BBC journalist, also wrote a e-book, “The Disappeared and the Moms of the Plaza” (1986), which bundled firsthand accounts by mothers to uncover the countless numbers of small children whom the Argentine regime experienced “disappeared.”
While performing on the BBC’s Newsnight software, Ms. Bennett fulfilled Mr. Clemmow, an editor and government at the BBC. They married in 1995.
In addition to her partner, she is survived by a daughter, Alexandra Bennett-Clemmow a son, Skomer Bennett-Clemmow and her sisters Robin King and Kimberly, Candace and Shelley Bennett.
In 1999, she left the BBC and grew to become head of TLC for Discovery in Washington, D.C. There, she released truth dramas and inside style and design programs, some of them dependent on common British formats, which boosted not only ratings but revenues.
She returned to the BBC in 2002 when she was named director of tv.
Following her analysis in May 2019, Ms. Bennett initially told handful of people of her sickness since she needed to keep away from “an extended wake,” her longtime buddy and BBC colleague, Lorraine Heggessey, wrote Tuesday in The Guardian.
She threw herself into her operate on the boards of the British Library and the Headlong Theater Firm. She went general public about her health issues in December 2019, when she joined a nonprofit team, OurBrainBank, an application that permits individuals with glioblastoma to talk to physicians around the environment and encourages investigation into the disease.
As a trainer earning a doctorate, Mr. Bennett moved the household normally. Jana and her four sisters put in time in Kansas, Minnesota and New Hampshire just before the relatives moved to England and settled in East Sussex, when Jana was 13.
She went to St. Anne’s College, Oxford College, and graduated in 1977 with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics. (An amateur singer, she was recruited to join a band by yet another Oxford scholar and a long term key minister, Tony Blair.) She earned her master’s degree in global relations from the London School of Economics in 1978. The following year, she joined the BBC as a news trainee.
Her early journalistic operate bundled information documentaries, like “The Disappeared: Voices from a Secret War,” about the repressive armed service regime in Argentina in the late 1970s and 1980s. She and John Simpson, a fellow BBC journalist, also wrote a e-book, “The Disappeared and the Moms of the Plaza” (1986), which bundled firsthand accounts by mothers to uncover the countless numbers of small children whom the Argentine regime experienced “disappeared.”
While performing on the BBC’s Newsnight software, Ms. Bennett fulfilled Mr. Clemmow, an editor and government at the BBC. They married in 1995.
In addition to her partner, she is survived by a daughter, Alexandra Bennett-Clemmow a son, Skomer Bennett-Clemmow and her sisters Robin King and Kimberly, Candace and Shelley Bennett.
In 1999, she left the BBC and grew to become head of TLC for Discovery in Washington, D.C. There, she released truth dramas and inside style and design programs, some of them dependent on common British formats, which boosted not only ratings but revenues.
She returned to the BBC in 2002 when she was named director of tv.
Following her analysis in May 2019, Ms. Bennett initially told handful of people of her sickness since she needed to keep away from “an extended wake,” her longtime buddy and BBC colleague, Lorraine Heggessey, wrote Tuesday in The Guardian.
She threw herself into her operate on the boards of the British Library and the Headlong Theater Firm. She went general public about her health issues in December 2019, when she joined a nonprofit team, OurBrainBank, an application that permits individuals with glioblastoma to talk to physicians around the environment and encourages investigation into the disease.