1. - Lindsay Anderson, Chariots of Fire, 1981. The BBChampion of all things  cultural... had  no Equity card. Promoted to  BBC-TV  chief  in 1968,  Wheldon  had run an arts programme, Monitor - where he started the careers of such UK film-makers as John Berger, Melvyn Bragg, Humphrey Burton, Patrick Garland, John Schlesinger... and above all, Ken Russell.