Sir Paul Fox, giant of BBC broadcasting in the era of Panorama, Grandstand and Dad’s Army – obituary

Sir Paul Fox who has died aged 98, ranked among the most creative and influential figures in British television for almost three decades and was one of the few television executives to achieve senior managerial status on both sides of the BBC-ITV divide; as controller of BBC One, he was the last of that breed of programme-making giants to reign over the medium’s golden age through the 1960s and 1970s.