Jack "Peter" Hardiman Scott (2 April 1920 – 15 September 1999) was an English journalist, broadcaster and writer.
After working on various provincial newspapers, Hardiman Scott joined the BBC in 1950 as an assistant news editor in Birmingham.
In 1962 he interviewed the leader of the Labour Party, Hugh Gaitskell, on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
He then spent five years as Chief Assistant to the Director-General of the BBC before retiring in 1980 to his cottage in Suffolk.
He was also the author of several detective thrillers and books of verse, including When the Words are Gone in the Phoenix Living Poets series,[4] and was the president of the Suffolk Poetry Society from 1979 until his death.