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Betty Willingale, 93, television producer and script editor
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__.Betty Willingale, who has died aged 93, was a television producer and script editor, best known for her work on BBC TV drama adaptations of classic literature.
Willingale was born in 1927.[1] She started working as a script editor at the BBC from the 1960s and worked on key BBC drama series and serials including North and South (1975) and I, Claudius (1976). She went on to form a strong working partnership with producer Jonathan Powell, script editing many of Powell's most successful drama serials including the hit adaptations of A Christmas Carol (1977), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Pride and Prejudice (1980), The Barchester Chronicles (1982) and The Old Men at the Zoo (1983).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Willingale
She was eventually given the chance to produce an adaptation of Mansfield Park (BBC 1983), later producing adaptations of Tender Is the Night (1985), Bleak House (1985) and Fortunes of War (1987), the latter two earned her BAFTA nominations.
Willingale continued to work as a Consultant Producer on the ITV detective drama Midsomer Murders until 2019.
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Willingale was born in 1927.[1] She started working as a script editor at the BBC from the 1960s and worked on key BBC drama series and serials including North and South (1975) and I, Claudius (1976). She went on to form a strong working partnership with producer Jonathan Powell, script editing many of Powell's most successful drama serials including the hit adaptations of A Christmas Carol (1977), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Pride and Prejudice (1980), The Barchester Chronicles (1982) and The Old Men at the Zoo (1983).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Willingale
She was eventually given the chance to produce an adaptation of Mansfield Park (BBC 1983), later producing adaptations of Tender Is the Night (1985), Bleak House (1985) and Fortunes of War (1987), the latter two earned her BAFTA nominations.
Willingale continued to work as a Consultant Producer on the ITV detective drama Midsomer Murders until 2019.
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