Biographies

Independent Commissioner, Arts, Music and Religion

Jacquie Hughes is the Independent Commissioner for Arts, Music and Religion.She is a member of the BBC Knowledge Commissioning team led by Richard Klein.

She rejoined the BBC in 2000 as Editor of documentary strand Modern Times and Managing Editor of Documentaries and History, having previously been a reporter and producer in BBC News and Features, 12 years earlier.

Jacquie was a newspaper, magazine and radio journalist before moving into television.

She spent 10 years working as a director on World In Action, The Media Show, and Watchdog.

She worked with Paul Watson in the documentary department at Granada Television and went on to head the factual departments at two independent production companies, Wall To Wall and Mentorn Barraclough Carey.

Here, she was responsible for factual output for all channels, including Channel 4's Weekly Planet with Jon Snow, ITV's The Agenda with Andrew Rawnsley, and Channel 4's The God Life Guide with Mark Little.

Documentaries on Hillary Clinton, Alan Clark and BBC One's Surrogate Babies series followed and while at MBC she was part of the editorial team that won the tender for BBC One's Question Time.

In her current role she is responsible for output across all four channels.

Jacquie's commissions include: Sinatra: Dark Star, The Meaning Of Life, Kipling A Remembrance Tale and Play It Again for BBC One; The Monastery, The Convent, The Retreat, Classical Star, Betjeman And Me with Rick Stein and Griff Rhys Jones, and Clash Of Worlds for BBC Two; Guerrilla Gig Live, Poetry Slam and Mindfield for BBC Three; and Dance Britannia, Marc Bolan, Paul Weller and In Search Of Steve Ditko for BBC Four.