Hugh Greene Hugh Greene Sir Hugh Carleton Greene (15 November 1910 – 19 February 1987) was a British journalist and television executive. He was Director-General of the BBC from 1960 to 1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955. He was the brother of Graham Greene, the English novelist. Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, one of the four sons and two daughters of Charles Henry Greene, Headmaster of Berkhamsted School. His brothers were novelist Graham Greene, Raymond Greene, a physician and Everest mountaineer, and Herbert Greene,
Virginia Graham (English writer) in the same year: "When Grandmama Fell off the Boat". Virginia Graham was writing regular film reviews for The Spectator in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Virginia Graham (English writer) Virginia Margaret Graham (1910–1993) was a London-born English writer, critic and poet, whose humorous verses on Second World War subjects were republished in London by Persephone Books in 2000 as "Consider the Years 1938–1946". She had a long correspondence with Joyce Grenfell, which was later published. Virginia Graham was the only child of humorist and poet, Harry Graham ("Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless People"), and Dorothy Villiers, who married in