Alan Will Wyatt CBE (born 7 January 1942) was formerly managing director of BBC Television (1991–96) and Chief Executive of BBC Broadcast (1996–99). He was later a company director, media consultant and author. Early life and career Wyatt was born in Oxford and educated at SS. Philip and James primary school and Magdalen College School, Oxford, before winning a scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He began work as a trainee journalist on the Sheffield Telegraph and joined BBC Radio News as a sub-editor in 1965 before moving to BBC Television, working for the Presentation Department as producer of Points of View, The Fifties and Storyteller, before joining the daily arts and media programme Late Night Line-Up. Career at the BBC Wyatt originated and edited Edition, presented by Kenneth Allsop, The Book Programme with Robert Robinson and Don't Quote Me. He produced a number of documentaries including All the Buildings Fit to Print about Nikolaus Pevsner and was executive producer of They've Shot Kennedy, Good Night and Good Luck and The Scars of Autumn. He produced B. Traven: A Mystery Solved and wrote a real-life literary detective story The Man Who Was B. Traven (Cape, 1980). In the USA this was published as The Secret of the Sierra Madre (Doubleday). By 1978 he was Assistant Head of the Presentation Department, whose output included The Old Grey Whistle Test, The Hollywood Greats and Barry Norman's Film... programme. From 1981 to 1988 he was Head of Documentary Features, starting 40 Minutes, Crimewatch, Food and Drink, Comrades, All Our Working Lives, The Duty Men, Queens' – A Cambridge College, and Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days, and negotiating and executive producing the documentary Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of the Queen, produced by Edward Mirzoeff, the highest rating documentary ever shown by the BBC. In 1991 he became managing director of BBC Network Television, after a spell as Assistant managing director. As MD he led a revival in drama – Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Between the Lines, The Buddha of Suburbia, Our Friends in the North, Ballykissangel, This Life, Hamish Macbeth and Dalziel and Pascoe – and a strong programme performance in other genres – in comedy, Goodnight Sweetheart, The Wrong Trousers, Absolutely Fabulous, Men Behaving Badly, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, The Fast Show and The Vicar of Dibley; and in documentary series People's Century, The Death