Tony Whitby
BBC radio executive
About Tony Whitby
Lived 1930 – 1975 (aged 44–45). Tony Whitby was a radio producer.
Anthony Charles Whitby (19 November 1929 – 25 February 1975) was a British BBC Radio producer and television current affairs editor who was Controller of BBC Radio 4 from 1970 to 1975.
Early life and education Whitby was born in Mere, Wiltshire and was educated at Bristol Cathedral School, where he won a scholarship to St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Career Whitby began his career as a civil servant in the Civil Service from 1954 to 1959, working in the Colonial Office.
Whitby joined the BBC as a radio producer on At Home and Abroad in the 1950s. In 1972, Whitby commissioned the first series of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and in 1973 Kaleidoscope.
He died at age 45, after a long illness.
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BBC radio executive
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Tony Whitby was born in 1930 in Mere.
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Tony Whitby died on 25 February 1975 in Kensington.
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Tony Whitby was a radio producer.
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