Aubrey Edward Singer CBE (21 January 1927 – 26 May 2007) was a British broadcasting executive who spent most of his career at the BBC.
[1][2] Singer was born in Bradford, England, left school aged 17 to train as a film editor, and joined the BBC in 1949.
Singer took the lead in finding international funding for very ambitious co-productions, leading to the so-called 'Science Spectaculars' written by Nigel Calder, and then the 13-part "personal view" series such as Civilisation (1969) and The Ascent of Man (1973).
He was also largely responsible for the historic 1967 Our World global satellite broadcast, which featured The Beatles.
After early retirement from the BBC, he established White City Films where he was managing director until 1996.