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Margaret Elizabeth Douglas OBE (22 August 1934 – 20 August 2008) was an English television producer and executive for the BBC. She joined the BBC in 1951, as a secretary to the Panorama editor Michael Peacock in 1951. Douglas worked on the 1959 United Kingdom general election and was subsequently given the responsibility of covering the proceedings of party conferences at the BBC in 1972. She was appointed as chief assistant to the Director-General of the BBC Alasdair Milne in 1983 and was promoted to chief political advisor when his successor Michael Checkland took over from Milne four years later. Douglas decided to retire from the BBC in 1993 and became the Supervisor of Parliamentary Broadcasting at the Palace of Westminster, a post she held until 1999.

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  • Margaret Elizabeth Douglas OBE (22 August 1934 – 20 August 2008) was an English television producer and executive for the BBC. She joined the BBC in 1951, as a secretary to the Panorama editor Michael Peacock in 1951. Douglas worked on the 1959 United Kingdom general election and was subsequently given the responsibility of covering the proceedings of party conferences at the BBC in 1972. She was appointed as chief assistant to the Director-General of the BBC Alasdair Milne in 1983 and was promoted to chief political advisor when his successor Michael Checkland took over from Milne four years later. Douglas decided to retire from the BBC in 1993 and became the Supervisor of Parliamentary Broadcasting at the Palace of Westminster, a post she held until 1999. (en)
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