| JOHNREITH | Scottish broadcasting executive; first Directorgeneral of the BBC (1927-38) |
| MILNE | Alasdair -, DirectorGeneral of the BBC from 1982-87 (5) |
| BIRT | John -, DirectorGeneral of the BBC from 1992-2000 (4) |
| ACCEDE | Returning record label executive's first to come to office (6) |
| JOHN | Scottish broadcasting executive; the first director-general of the BBC (1927-1938) |
| REITH | Scottish broadcasting executive; the first director-general of the BBC (1927-1938) |
| UNESCO | Koichiro Matsuura became directorgeneral of which UN agency in 1999? (7) |
| EDGIEST | English broadcasting executive before dismantling site is most irritable (7) |
| ROONE | Sports and news broadcasting executive ___ Arledge |
| NUDGE | Light touch shown by posh broadcasting executive in Tyneside (5) |
| EDGY | Nervous broadcasting executive beset by outsiders in emergency (4) |
| SANDWEDGE | Saw need possibly to include broadcasting executive in golf club (4,5) |
| SIMON | and 18dn, Historian; presenter of the BBC TV series The American Future and The Story of the Jews (5,6) |
| CLARINET | The ____ and 1A are the only wind instruments played by more than one winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year contest |
| SCHAMA | Historian; presenter of the BBC TV series The American Future and The Story of the Jews (6) |
| CHATAWAY | Christopher ........ , first winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (8) |
| OPENGOVERNMENT | Title of the first episode of the BBC comedy series Yes Minister |
| NINEBELOWZERO | British blues band who performed on the first episode of the BBC comedy series The Young Ones |
| ATOUCHOFCLASS | First of the 12 episodes of the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers, originally broadcast on 19 September 1975 (1,5,2,5) |
| MCCOY | Before Rory McIlroy in 2025, who was the last Irish winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award? (5) |
