BBC Executive Douglas Muggeridge Dies
From Times Wire Services
LONDON —
Douglas Muggeridge, managing director of the British Broadcasting Corp.’s overseas broadcast service, died Tuesday at St. Thomas’ Hospital here after a long illness, according to a BBC spokesman.
Muggeridge, 56, spent 29 years with the BBC. He was appointed in 1981 to head the BBC’s prestigious External Service, which broadcasts in 37 languages and has a worldwide audience estimated at 100 million.
He was a first cousin of the British commentator and writer Malcolm Muggeridge.
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