He had a noted dislike of superfluous trade union practices in the television industry, and could put noses out of joint.
He attended independent school and went to university to study modern languages, acquiring a degree in French and Spanish in 1952.
[2] He worked under Donald Edwards (from BBC radio), and Sir David Nicholas had been deputy-editor since 1963, who would follow him as Editor from 1977 to 1989.
[6] At a conference organised by the Royal Television Society in Birmingham in October 1977, he revealed that broadcasting trade unions (in the UK) had deliberately prevented recent up-to-date electronic equipment from being implemented.
[7] ACTT (the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians) had also attracted negative attention from some film directors.