Sir Charles John Curran (13 October 1921 – 9 January 1980) was an Irish-born British television executive and Director-General of the BBC from 1969 to 1977.
[1] He attended Wath Grammar School in Rotherham, before obtaining a first-class honours degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Curran also suffered criticism from Wilson, at that time the leader of the opposition, who claimed that the documentary Yesterday's Men (1971) was biased against himself and the Labour Party,[3] an assertion the BBC now accepts.
Curran issued an apology to Whitehouse after she complained about the violence at the end of part three of The Deadly Assassin (1976), a Doctor Who serial.
Philip Hinchcliffe, then series producer, was replaced after only three more serials and his successor, Graham Williams, was ordered to lighten the tone and reduce the violence and horror content.