My husband David Heycock, who has died aged 80, from complications from multiple sclerosis, was a prominent producer in the music and arts department of BBC television in the 1970s.
His work with Kenneth Clark on Civilisation and as the director of the final four programmes in Alistair Cooke’s America series were much praised, as was Spirit of the Age, a pairing of films on Palladian and 20th-century architecture with John Julius Norwich and Hugh Casson. He was responsible for Where We Live, a six-part series broadcast on BBC Two in 1974, in which young people described their feelings about the world in which they were growing up.
