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Cecil Charles Madden, MBE (29 November 1902 – 27 May 1987), was an English pioneer of television production. In 1936, he moved from BBC radio to its experimental television service, and was responsible for many programmes until the service was suspended during the Second World War.
Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex, author of The BBC: A People’s History.
Its producer was Cecil Madden – a key figure in early television, since he was to be in day-to-day charge of all output until the service closed at the outbreak of war in 1939. In the interview...
Who was Cecil Madden? Cecil Madden joined the television service in 1936, and brought to his new job a fascinating range of experience – both inside broadcasting and out.
Mar 8, 2019 · Interview with Cecil Madden, with John Lane 1976. 08 March 2019.
Feb 9, 2024 · This paper looks at the contribution to children’s television made by Cecil Madden, employed as Acting Head of Children’s Programmes at the BBC in the early stages of its development from a part of the Talks Department to its own separate identity (between 1950-1951).
May 25, 2022 · Cecil Madden was briefly part of the production team in 1934, and it was Madden who would reimagine the programme for television as Picture Page: ‘a visualised version of radio’s In Town Tonight’ (Norman, 1984: 143).
