Thomas Hewitt (died 1964), of Worthing, West Sussex, and Daffodil Anne (died 2007), née Thorne,[3] Hewitt was educated at the independent school St John's School in Leatherhead, Surrey and St John's College, University of Durham where he reported for a live student programme on BBC Radio Durham entitled University Termtime.
In 2003 he was one of three reporters to use David Kelly as a source for the BBC story claiming that the British Government had "sexed up" a dossier describing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
In 2008 Hewitt covered the United States Presidential Election primaries and Democratic Nominee for President Barack Obama's visit to the Middle East and Europe in the summer of 2008.
He has also worked for the BBC's Natural History Unit making two programmes about the Land Of The Tiger, and wrote and presented Another Silent Spring about the effect of pesticides on wildlife.
- a BBC TV show where three people are given the chance to take ministerial decisions in a real-time dramatisation of a potential national emergency (flooding, terrorist attack etc.).