Neil Hutchison: Difference between revisions

'''Neil Hutchison''' (died 2010) was a British-Australian radio and television executive best known for being head of drama at the ABC. He worked for the BBC and was the BBC's representative in Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49568558 |title=Fascinated By Set-Up Here |newspaper=[[Barrier Miner]] |volume=LX |issue=((17,716 |location=New South Wales, Australia)) |date=15 August 1947 |accessdateaccess-date=21 January 2024 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Hutchison became the Director of Features at the ABC in 1949,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22707978 |title=ABC Director of Features |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne |issue=((31,896 |location=Victoria, Australia)) |date=23 November 1948 |accessdateaccess-date=21 January 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168885137 |title=A.B.C. Staff "Upset" |newspaper=Truth |issue=3079 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=23 January 1949 |accessdateaccess-date=21 January 2024 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> then a Director of Drama and Features from 1951 until the mid-1960s.<ref>{{citationcite magazine |title=Television Drama |journalmagazine=ABC Weekly |volume=18 |issue=44 |date=3 November 1956 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1321207806 |id=nla.obj-1321207806 |access-date=21 January 2024 |via=Trove }}</ref>

Hutchison was also head of the [[Elizabethan Theatre Trust]]. Considering Australia made so few films at the time, this made Hutchison one of the most powerful people in Australian drama in the 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{citationcite magazine |title=Arts and Entertainment – The Trust Clings To Life |journalmagazine=The Bulletin |volume=88 |issue=4508 |date=30 July 1966 |location=Sydney, N.S.W |id=nla.obj-699012106 |via=Trove}}</ref><ref>{{citationcite magazine |title=Theatre – A Noble Ruin |journalmagazine=The Bulletin |issuevolume=Vol. 83 No. |issue=4279 (|date=17 FebFebruary 1962 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-701108694 |id=nla.obj-701108694 |access-date=21 January 2024 |via=Trove }}</ref>