executive officer, a move that led to it becoming one of the world's best-regarded documentary events, according to Variety. He stepped down as the festival's chair in 2011, but continued to sit on its board of governors. In 2016 and 2017, Hewlett took part in a series of interviews with Eddie Mair, broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4's PM, in which he described his treatment for cancer of the oesophagus. In the episode broadcast on 6 February 2017 he described marrying his partner Rachel, in a ceremony arranged by the Royal Marsden Hospital within one hour, after being told that he had come to the end of possible treatment. He also wrote a series of columns "My cancer diary" in The Observer. Personal life and death Hewlett had three sons by his former partner, Karole Lange. After announcing that his cancer was terminal in early February 2017, he married his then-partner Rachel Crellin, a journalist and executive of Genie Pictures, at the Royal Marsden Hospital. On 20 February 2017, Hewlett died of oesophageal cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital whilst listening to Bob Dylan recordings with his family by his side. References External links Profile at "News Presenters Ltd. Profile at the Guardian/ Observer (including Hewlett's cancer diary) 1958 births 2017 deaths British radio personalities BBC Radio 4 presenters British journalists British adoptees Academics of the University of Salford Alumni of the University of Manchester Deaths from cancer in England Deaths from esophageal cancer Panorama (British TV programme)