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Title: Geoffrey Whitehead
Post by Administrator on Dec 26^th, 2024, 7:55pm

Peter Hill reports that Geoffrey Whitehead, formerly the BBC’s Deputy Political Editor, has died. He was 90.
Geoffrey Whitehead was deputy to Peter Hardman Scott in the Westminster office in the 1970s and early 1980s. He left to become Director General of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and later became Director General of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
After retirement he remained in New Zealand where he died on Christmas Eve.