Harman Grisewood
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Harman Joseph Gerard Grisewood, CBE (8 February 1906 – 8 January 1997) was an English radio actor, radio and television executive, novelist and non-fiction writer.[1] He acted as literary executor to the poet David Jones, a lifelong friend.
He was educated at Ampleforth College and Worcester College, Oxford. He joined the young BBC not long after graduating in 1927.[2]
He was controller of the BBC Third Programme from 1948 to 1952. He is credited with the idea in 1966 for The Money Programme.[3]
In 1960 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and also became a Knight of Grace and Devotion (Knight of Magistral Grace) of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[1][4]
The BBC presenter Freddie Grisewood was a cousin.