| REITH | First BBC Director General |
| THOMPSON | Mark, BBC Director-General 2004-2012 (8) |
| DYKE | Greg, BBC Director-General 2000-04 (4) |
| BIRT | John, BBC Director General 1992-2000 (4) |
| ANGELARIPPON | First BBC female newsreader, in 1975 (6,6) |
| SNAGGE | John ___, British broadcaster who read the first BBC television news bulletin in 1954 |
| SPECIAL | Six-Five ____ was the first BBC TV rock'n'roll show |
| CHATAWAY | Christopher _, winner of the first BBC Sports Personality of the Year (8) |
| RICHARDBAKER | First BBC TV reader (initially as a voice behind pictures) |
| JOHNREITH | First general manager (1922-7) and director general (1927-38) of the BBC (4,5) |
| JOHN | Scot who was first Director-general of the BBC, in 1927 (4,5) |
| EDUCATE | The BBC's mission propounded by Lord Reith, its first director-general: to inform, ____ and entertain (7) |
| GREG | ___ Dyke, former director-general of the BBC (4) |
| STELLA | --- Rimington, first female Director General of M15 (6) |
| OGILVIE | Frederick ?, Director-General of the BBC from 1938-42 (7) |
| MILNE | Alasdair ?, Director-General of the BBC from 1982-87 (5) |
| GREGDYKE | Director-General of the BBC 2000-04 and chairman of the Football Association 2013-16 (4,4) |
| ALASDAIR | -- Milne, Director-General of the BBC between 1982 and 1987 (8) |
| NEWSNIGHT | Current affairs programme that caused the resignation of George Entwistle as Director-General of the BBC |
| GREENE | Hugh ?, Director-General of the BBC from 1960-69 |
