Background
Gill was born in Winchester, Hampshire but was brought up in Canterbury.
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Michael Gill
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After the war he studied Philosophy and Psychology at Edinburgh University.
Career
He contracted tuberculosis as a child which disrupted his education severely including four years in a spinal chairman He served in the Royal Air Force in Intelligence during the war. One of his most memorable debriefings was interrogating a German who had survived a 20,000 ft fall over the Netherlands without his parachute opening.
After a period as a sub-editor and arts reviewer on The Scotsman, he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation. He worked first on radio but soon moved to television
He is chiefly remembered for Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark (1969) (director and co-producer) and Alistair Cooke"s America (1973) (director and producer). Although the idea for Civilisation and its presenter, Kenneth Clark, were given to Gill, "America" and its presenter were entirely Gill"s idea.
The couple went on to have two sons, Adrian and Nicholas. The marriage was dissolved and he remarried in 1978 to Georgina Denison, with whom he had a daughter, Chloe.
He died in London from Alzheimer"s disease.
He was the father of writer, journalist and newspaper columnist Associate of Arts Gill.
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United Kingdom