Michael Hayes

Michael Hayes (3 April 1929 – 16 September 2014 ) was a British television director and newsreader. He was born in Barking in Essex.

As a young man, Hayes was an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Later he worked for the BBC in various roles, beginning as a studio manager for the World Service, and working his way up to directing for television. He also helmed the BBC's 1961 adaptation of A for Andromeda.

From 1986 to 1994 he was a newsreader for the World Service. He died in September 2014, at the age of 85.