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Tony Whitby
Tony Whitby (c.1930 – 1975)〔David Hendy ''Life on Air'', Oxford University Press, 2008 ()〕〔Simon Elmes ''And Now on Radio 4: A Celebration of the World's Best Radio Station'', Arrow (pb), 2008 (), p.32〕 was a British BBC Radio producer and Television current affairs editor who was Controller of BBC Radio 4 from 1970 to 1975.
== Life and career ==
At the University of Oxford, Whitby wrote a thesis on Matthew Arnold.〔(The Birth of BBC Radio 4’s ''Analysis'', Hugh Chignell )〕〔(Mainly fair, moderate, or good, Stefan Collini, ''The Guardian'', 22 September 2007 )〕 He began his career as a civil servant in the Colonial Office.〔(Bournemouth University BBC Radio 4 Analysis Archive Project )〕
Tony Whitby joined the BBC as a radio producer on ''At Home and Abroad'' in the 1950s.〔 During the 1960s Tony Whitby was a television current affairs editor on ''Gallery'',〔 ''Tonight'' and ''24 Hours''. Whitby was Secretary of the BBC,〔 before his appouintment as Controller of Radio 4 in 1969, taking up the post in January 1970.〔 In this post, he gained a reputation for shrewdly picking out the ideas of others and embellishing them by adding his own thoughts and suggestions. He had no intention of creating a new schedule from scratch, but he wanted a more topical and a more varied flavour - to make Radio 4, in his words, like a "well-labelled library that has a few surprises in it". So, in 1970, along came the unashamedly serious ''Analysis'' and the magisterial ''World Tonight'', the bright and breezy 'commuter magazine' ''PM Reports'' and a phone-in called ''It's Your Line'', the satirical sketch-show ''Week Ending'', and the consumer magazine ''You and Yours''.〔(A year of anniversaries on Radio 4, David Hendy, 6 October 2010 )〕 In 1972, Whitby commissioned the first series of ''I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue''〔(I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue ),〕 and in 1973 ''Kaleidoscope''.〔 In 2010, David Hendy, lecturer in broadcasting history at the University of Westminster, said:
"Looking back, what's most striking about Whitby's revolution of 1970 is how genuinely eclectic it made Radio 4, with programmes stretching across a suddenly wider spectrum, from the intellectually demanding or disturbing at one end to the faintly scurrilous or comforting at the other. The changes 40 years ago set Radio 4 on its long-term trajectory: away from the dusty tones of the somewhat middlebrow old Home Service, to the tougher, livelier, more authoritative, network we have today.".〔
His wife was Joy Whitby, known for her work in children's programming.〔Samira Ahmed ("Joy Whitby: a life spent telling children's stories on TV" ), telegraph.co.uk 1 February 2013〕
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