Hallam Tennyson (radio producer)


Beryl Hallam Augustine Tennyson was a British radio producer.
He was born in Chelsea, the son of Sir Charles Tennyson and his wife Lady Ivy, and the great-grandson of the Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University.
He married Margot Wallach in Kensington, London in 1946. She was born 30 March 1921 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, and died 19 April 1999 in Highgate, London. He and his wife Margot had a son, Jonathan Tennyson, and a daughter.
After the death of his wife, Hallam revealed his homosexuality.
Hallam joined the BBC World Service in 1956, working as a radio producer and becoming assistant head of drama.
His own radio play The Spring of the Beast, an account of the friendship between Henry James and author Constance Fenimore Woolson, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as the Monday Play on 26 May and repeated as Afternoon Theatre on 31 May 1986. James is depicted as unable to overcome his inhibitions against loving either a woman or another man.
He was stabbed to death in his bed, at home in Highgate, in 2005. As of April 2011, his murder was still unsolved.