Richard Hugh Burnett was a British television producer and cartoonist.
Born in Sheffield, the son of a journalist who eventually became editor of the Methodist Recorder, Burnett studied at the London School of Economics. After finishing his National Service serving in India with the Intelligence Corps, Burnett joined the BBC's Far Eastern Service at Bush House in 1949. Personal Call, a radio series in which Burnett visited public figures of the day, was later developed into the series he prod
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