Posted on 01/08/2012
Janice Hadlow
History postgraduate, 1981 Royal Holloway College and Honorary Fellow
Janice Hadlow was Controller of BBC2 from 2008 to 2014, where her many hits have included Miranda, Rev, Gareth Malone's Military Wives, Stargazing Live with Brian Cox and the Great British Bake Off. She was previously Controller of BBC4 and Head of Specialist Factual at Channel 4, where she commissioned highly successful and award-winning programmes from most factual genres including history, science, arts and religion, including David Starkey's Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth, and The 1940s House.