Overview
- His daughter, Clare Dibble, announced he died at 05:15 on 17 December at home with family by his side.
- BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and the Royal Philharmonic Society led tributes, with Proms controller Sam Jackson praising his lasting influence.
- As the BBC’s head of music and arts in the 1960s and 1970s, he launched BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1978 to champion new talent.
- He helped found London Weekend Television, edited and presented Aquarius, and oversaw landmark broadcasts including the 1976 Wagner Ring cycle.
- A close collaborator of Yehudi Menuhin and Leonard Bernstein—whose biography he wrote—he later presented on Classic FM, earned major British Academy and Emmy honors, and was knighted in 2020.