John Dennis Fowler Green

John Dennis Fowler Green (9 May 1909 – 25 March 2000) was an English radio producer and executive at the BBC. He was also known as an agriculturist and farmer.

Early life He was the son of Capt. Henry Green and his wife Amy Gertrude Rock, married in 1904, of Chedworth, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Cheltenham College and was a student at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Early politics While an undergraduate, Green was President of the Cambridge Union.

John Platts-Mills encountered Green at meetings of the English Mistery in the early 1930s. In 1931, as chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association, Green wrote an essay dedicated to Gerard Wallop, Viscount Lymington of the English Mistery: it was for Dorothy Crisp's collection The Rebirth of Conservatism. At book length, he produced Mr. Baldwin. A Study in Post-war Conservatism (1933).

In 1934, Green wrote in The National Review on Anthony Ludovici, in an article "Youth Speaks Out II.—A Political Writer". Green with William Sanderson, Wallop and Ludovici advocated for a return to a medieval constitution. Part I of "Youth Speaks Out", in the same issue, was by Duncan Sandys, with title "The British Movement", on a short-lived "rightist" conservative group. Editorial comment was:

In the first article Mr. Duncan Sandys tells us what he is trying to do in the British Movement. In the second article Mr. John Green, a member of the English Mistery, a high loyalist Tory group, tells us about the writer who sets forth the ideals of his society.

Ludovici's Violence, Sacrifice and War (1933), Creation and Recreation (1934) and Recovery: the Quest of regenerate national values (1935) were published by the St James Kin cell of the English Mistery; to whom he had lectured, on the Alexander technique. Green attended a 1939 private dinner of the Mistery, in his capacity as Constable of the St James Kin.

Career Called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1933, Green was brought into the BBC by Lord Reith in 1934. According to Hendy, it was to "help whip leftish producers into line." In 1935 Green produced a monthly radio series "Empire at Work".

Green innovated with a regular gardening talk, given by C. H. Middleton. Initially Middleton was one of a group of speakers found by the Royal Horticultural Society. He was given his own weekly programme, In the Garden, in September 1934. Green introduced also "For Farmers Only", on agricultural topics, cancelled on the outbreak of World War II but then reinstated. Post-war, Green was involved in discussion of the BBC's factual content, and set up the radio series "At Home And Abroad" of the 1950s, which included interviews of world leaders. He was instrumental in the 1957 recruitment of Ian McIntyre, whose background had some features in common with his own.

Greene came in as Director-General in 1960, succeeding Jacob. The Rev. John Fowler Green (died 1904, at age 80), was son of Mrs Green of Nechell's Cottage, Saltley, a Cambridge graduate and cleric, becoming vicar of Whiteshill. He had four sons: Francis Joseph of Solihull, who inherited property at Gravelly Hill; and provided for a division of property on his widow's death to his sons Francis Joseph (at Nechells), John Edward (farm at Appleton-le-Street), Henry (house property at St Clement's Road, Aston juxta Birmingham), and Andrew (ground rents at St Clement's Road).

The Rev. John Edward Green (25 December 1861 – 12 December 1943) was a Cambridge graduate and cleric, vicar of Lower Guiting, and son of the Rev. John Fowler Green. He purchased, from John Scott, 3rd Earl of Eldon, the Chedworth Manor farm estate in Gloucestershire. The estate was farmed by Henry Green, his brother; and John Dennis Fowler Green, as son of Henry Green, inherited it on his father's death in 1947. He took over running of the farm himself in 1978.

Family Green married in 1946 Diana Judith Elwes (1913–1996), daughter of Lieut.-Col. Henry Cecil Elwes of Colesbourne, son of Henry John Elwes; she was a magistrate.