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Peter Casely-Hayford (born November 1957 in London England); became Managing Editor of BBC flagship documentary programme, Panorama before leaving with two other BBC Directors to Co-Found film production Company Twenty Twenty Television. Twenty Twenty has made some of the UK's most popular television programmes, such as The Choir, Brat Camp, BAFTA nominated Lads Army and First Dates and was sold in 2014 to Shed Media-Warner Bros. In 2008 The Black Power List named the Casely-Hayford family the most influential black family in the UK. His brother Joe Casely-Hayford was a renowned fashion designer and founder of the Casely-Hayford fashion house now run by Son Charlie Casely-Hayford. His sister, Dr Margaret Casely-Hayford CBE, became the General Counsel, Director of Legal Services at The Waitrose - John Lewis Partnership, a company with 70,000 employees; then became chair of ActionAid UK before being appointed Chancellor of Coventry University. In 2018 she was announced as Chair of the board of Shakespeare’s Globe, taking over from Lord Bichard. He is also the brother of cultural historian and former director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, Dr Gus Casely-Hayford OBE who is now Director of the Victoria and Albert East Museum. He is the Son of Victor Casely-Hayford, an accountant who had trained as a barrister, and the grandson and namesake of the eminent lawyer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford, MBE, whose 1911 novel Ethiopia Unbound was one of the first novels to be published in English by a black African, greatly influencing Pan-African politics and the leading civil rights activists of his time.