Education
Hadlow was educated at comprehensive school in Swanley, in north Kent, and graduated with a Bachelor in History from King"s College London in 1978.
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Janice Hadlow
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Career
She was the controller of the British Broadcasting Corporation television channel British Broadcasting Corporation Two, taking over this position in November 2008 having previously been controller of British Broadcasting Corporation Four. At the beginning of March 2014 she assumed a new post within the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for special projects and seasons. Hadlow"s post was abolished when she left the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2016.
She then spent time as a Postgraduate History Researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London (1978-1981).
Hadlow began her media career with the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1986 as a production trainee. Foreign two years between 1987 and 1989 she was a producer for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 in the Current Affairs and Magazines department, where she produced Woman"s Hour before moving to television
She worked in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Music and Arts department between 1993 and 1995 before become joint-head of the History department. One of the television shows she helped to create in this period was Simon Schama"s A History of Britain.
In 1999 Hadlow moved to Channel 4 where she became Head of History, Art and Religion. being involved with David Starkey"s The Six Wives of Henry VIII series.
She later became Head of Specialist Factual. She returned to the British Broadcasting Corporation as Controller of British Broadcasting Corporation Four after five years and specialised in commissioning programmes concerning factual genres such as history, science and religion. In 2004 The Observer included Hadlow in a list of 80 young people who they believed would shape people"s lives in the early 21st Century and in 2006 sister-paper The Guardian praised her for her work over the preceding 18-months at British Broadcasting Corporation Four.
In 2008 Hadlow became controller of British Broadcasting Corporation Two, in addition adding the same role at British Broadcasting Corporation Four in 2013.
In February 2014 she stood down from the post of channel controller taking up a new post responsible for special projects and seasons. She was succeeded by Kim Shillinglaw.
lieutenant was announced in January 2016 that Hadlow is leaving the Corporation, and her post will be abolished.
