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Author Description David Cleghorn Thomson was director of the BBC's Scottish Region from October 1926 to April 1933.<br /><br />Thomson joined the BBC's publicity department as an assistant in 1925, working mainly in the literary section where he wrote articles for the <i>Radio Times</i>, and soon became one of the magazine's two sub-editors. When the BBC took full editorial control of the <i>Radio Times</i> in February 1926, Thomson became the magazine's assistant editor and musical editor.<br /><br />In March 1926 Thomson was transferred to Glasgow as Scottish Liaison Officer. His brief was to 'assist in the development of the scope and influence of broadcasting in Scotland and Ulster'. From October of that year he was promoted to the new position of Northern Area Director, in charge of Scotland and Ulster, thereby re-establishing a senior post in Scotland. Immediately prior to the start of the new Scottish Regional Programme in November 1928, his title changed again to Scottish Regional Director.<br /><br />Thomson showed himself 'an ardent advocate of Scottish interests, of the employment of Scottish talent and of the formation of a national sentiment'. He instituted a number of popular Scottish programmes under series titles such as <i>Frae a' the Airts</i>, <i>What's Intil't?</i> and <i>What's Wrong with Scotland?</i>. Under his direction, Scotland was the first part of the BBC to transition to a 'Region' and Thomson gathered round him a hand-picked administrative staff. Thomson was responsible for the whole policy of broadcasting in Scotland, including the move of the BBC's Scottish headquarters from Glasgow to Edinburgh in 1930 and the conversion of premises at 5 Queen Street into what would become Scottish Broadcasting House, Edinburgh.<br /><br />Cleghorn Thomson resigned from the BBC, after eight years with the Corporation, on 7 April 1933, owing to what he described as "disagreement between myself and my chiefs on matters of policy in Scotland". The 'resignation' was widely seen as a dismissal.<br /><br />Read more at: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/index.php/back-issues/2013-03-27-15-25-26/volume-nine-issue-three/569-nationalism-and-the-bbc-george-mckechnie">http://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/...</a>

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