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Education

He attended St John's School, Leatherhead and Queen's College, Cambridge, where he was also a member of the Cambridge Footlights Club. He was a member of the cast of the 1963 Footlights revue A Clump of Plinths, which was so successful during its run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that the revue transferred to the West End of London under the title of Cambridge Circus and later taken on tour to both New Zealand and Broadway in September 1964. St. ... Full name The Queens College of Saint Margaret and Saint Bernard, commonly called Queens College, in the University of Cambridge Motto Floreat Domus May this House Flourish Named after - Previous names - Established 1448 Sister College Pembroke College President Lord Eatwell JCR President {{{JCR President}}} MCR President {{{MCR President}}} Location... The ADC Theatre is the home of the Footlights. ... Categories: Festival stubs | Edinburgh ... West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Cambridge Circus is a comedy revue that played in London in the 1960s. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ...

BBC work

A BBC Radio production of Cambridge Circus, titled I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, launched many of the show's cast, including Hatch, into a radio comedy series of the same name. Hatch later co-devised the satirical show Week Ending and produced other comedy radio shows such as Just a Minute, Hello, Cheeky!, and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He then moved on to executive positions in the BBC, creating the original Radio 5. BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. ... Cambridge Circus is a comedy revue that played in London in the 1960s. ... Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again was a long-running BBC radio comedy programme that originally grew out of the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus. ... Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again was a long-running BBC radio comedy programme that originally grew out of the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus. ... Week Ending. ... Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game which has been running continuously since its first broadcast on December 22, 1967. ... Hello, Cheeky! was a series broadcast on BBC Radio 2 between 1973 and 1979. ... Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or simply Clue, is a BBC radio comedy which has run since 1972-04-11. ... This article is about the former BBC radio station, BBC Radio 5. ...

Later career

Hatch left the Corporation and became Chairman of the National Consumer Council (1996–2000) and later of the Parole Board (2000-4) for England and Wales, for which he was knighted in 2003. In the later role he caused consternation in some quarters in 2003 for describing Tony Martin, the farmer convicted of manslaughter, as a "very dangerous man" in a Times interview.^[3][4] A Parole Board is a panel of people who decide whether a criminal should be allowed to be released from prison following him or her serving the minimum term of their sentence. ... The dignity of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. ... Anthony Edward Martin (born 1944) is a Norfolk farmer and cause célèbre as a result of his action in shooting two burglars who were robbing his home; he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, but his conviction was reduced to manslaughter on appeal. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom (and the Kingdom of Great Britain before the United Kingdom existed) since 1788 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. ...

Hatch was also the chairman of SSVC (the Services Sound and Vision Corporation) between 1999 and 2004. After retiring he retained the position of Life Vice-President on the SSVC Board of Trustees. SSVC operates many facilities on behalf of the MoD including BFBS Radio and TV. The Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) is a British registered charity. ... The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces. ... The British Forces Broadcasting Service was established by the British War Office (now Ministry of Defence) in 1943, and today provides radio and television programming for HM Forces, and their dependents worldwide, in Germany, Cyprus, Belize, Canada, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Middle East. ...

Presenting

Hatch was regular chairman of radio panel quiz game Wireless Wise (1999–2003), made for Radio 4 by Testbed Productions, and presented or spoken in other programmes which included an edition of Radio Heads (2003), a three-hour omnibus collection of his radio programmes on BBC 7, and a Radio 4 Archive Hour (2006) celebration of the BBC's Broadcasting House building in London. BBC Radio 7 is a digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and childrens programming 24 hours a day. ... For other uses, see Broadcasting House (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

References

1. ^ Obituary, Daily Telegraph, 17 June 2007. Retrieved on 18 June 2007.
2. ^ Obituary, "Just a Minute" site
3. ^ "Tony Martin is a dangerous man, says parole chief", The Times, 27 May 2003. Retrieved on 16 June 2007.
4. ^ "Tony Martin 'a dangerous man'", BBC News, 27 May 2003. Retrieved on 16 June 2007.

• Wilmut, Roger (1980). From Fringe to Flying Circus – celebrating a unique generation of comedy 1960-1980. London: Eyre Methuen Ltd. ISBN 0-413-46950-6. 
• Hewison, Robert (1983). Footlights! – a hundred years of Cambridge comedy. Methuen London Ltd. ISBN 0-413-51150-2. 

External links

• David Hatch at the Internet Broadway Database
• Radio performer Hatch dies at 68 BBC News
• The Independent Obituary