Post by marky on Dec 11, 2010 18:33:45 GMT
Name: Peter Hyman
BBC Position: Producer
BBC Position: Producer
"A graduate of Bristol University, the former BBC and Sky TV journalist Hyman worked from 1994 firstly as special adviser to Donald Dewar, later being seconded as a press officer for Tony Blair during his election campaign.
Hyman, who coined the phrase "bog-standard comprehensive", left his role at the Labour Party in 2003 to become a history and politics teacher at Islington Green School, a failing City Academy in North London (and "the sink school to which Blair refused to send his children when he lived in the borough").
Described by Telegraph journalist Benedict Brogan as "speechwriter extraordinaire turned teacher, author and 1/3 of Newsnight’s pundit panel", Hyman announced on an April 2010 edition of Newsnight that even he expected the Tories to win the election." Powerbase
"Connoisseurs of New Labour propaganda, if there are such people, are in for a treat over the next few weeks. They can have all their views confirmed by a series of five BBC Radio 4 plays written with the help of one of Tony Blair's advisers and designed to show us that Labour politicians aren't quite so bad after all.
The first episode of Number 10 broadcast on Friday, certainly had me weeping into my hanky, but only with the kind of laughter that the authors would probably consider inappropriate. It was written by award-winning playwright Jonathan Myerson, who used to write an entertaining column about his experiences as a Labour councillor in Lambeth, and the script adviser is Peter Hyman, who wrote speeches for our last prime minister. Guardian