Cate Haste Explained

Birth Name:Catherine Haste
Birth Date:1945 8, df=yes
Birth Place:Leeds, England
Nationality:English
Children:2

Catherine Haste, Lady Bragg (6 August 1945 – 29 April 2021)[1] was an English author, biographer, historian and documentary film director, who worked freelance for major television networks in the UK and US over a period of 40 years.

Early life

Haste was born in Leeds, one of three surviving daughters of Margaret (née Hodge) and Eric Haste. She spent part of her childhood in Australia from age four before returning to England seven years later. Haste attended Thornbury Grammar School in Bristol before going on to study English at the University of Sussex, graduating in 1966. She then pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in Adult Education at the University of Manchester.

Television documentaries

Haste directed political and historical documentaries and series, including Munich: The Peace of Paper.[2] For Cold War, Jeremy Isaacs' 24-part series,[3] Haste directed five films. She directed Flashback TV's Hitler's Brides[4] about women in Nazi Germany; produced Death of a Democrat in Secret History, the series broadcast by Channel 4;[5] and Married to the Prime Minister,[6] presented by Cherie Blair, the wife of the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

Books

Haste's first book, Keep the Home Fires Burning (1977), was described by journalist Phillip Knightley as: "One can only hope that this important book will make it more difficult for any British government so deeply to deceive its people ever again."[7] Maureen Freely wrote that Rules of Desire (1997) was "as diverting and as suggestive as a very good novel.... temperate, balanced, subtle and humane".[8] The Daily Telegraph critic wrote that Nazi Women: Hitler's Seduction of a Nation (2001) "opens up the bizarre moral universe of the Third Reich ....at once comprehensible and compelling, and at times deeply moving. It is media history at its best."[9] The prize-winning Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint (2010), a biography/monograph of the Cumbrian Expressionist landscape painter, signalled Haste's shift to biography and was, according to Andrew Lambirth, "a handsome, slim volume ....elegantly and deftly put together".[10]

Personal life and death

Haste was married from 1973 to 2018 to the broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, whom she met at a protest; the couple had two children, Tom and Alice.[11] She was a member of English PEN, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and Directors UK (formerly Directors Guild of Great Britain), and had been a trustee of Index on Censorship and World Film Collective.

She lived in Hampstead, north London, and like her former husband was a member of the Labour Party. She died from cancer in April 2021, aged 75.[12] [11] [13]

Bibliography

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. News: Cate Haste . . 4 May 2021 . 5 May 2021.
  2. News: Goodman . Walter . Walter Goodman (critic) . Review/Television; Behind the Munich Pact . . 28 September 1988 . 12 June 2022.
  3. Web site: Cate Heste – Contact Info, Agent, Manager IMDbPro .
  4. Web site: Hitler's Brides (2001 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190416114951/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b860649eb. live. April 16, 2019.
  5. Web site: Death of a Democrat (1992) . https://web.archive.org/web/20190416115002/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7bf85e4b. dead. April 16, 2019.
  6. Web site: Married to the Prime Minister (2005) . https://web.archive.org/web/20190416114953/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8bfdb905. dead. April 16, 2019.
  7. Web site: Useful lies » 3 Dec 1977 » the Spectator Archive .
  8. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/book-review-at-sixties-and-sevens-rules-of-desire-sex-in-britain-since-world-war-i-cate-haste-chatto-1531432html.
  9. News: Hitler's Hausfrauen . 31 March 2001 . 29 August 2019.
  10. News: A Cumberland legend . 8 January 2011.
  11. Web site: Foot . Tom . Cate Haste, documentary maker fell in love with arty Hampstead spirit . live . . 3 June 2021 . 3 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184034/http://camdennewjournal.com/article/cate-haste-documentary-maker-fell-in-love-with-arty-hampstead-spirit . 9 July 2021 . en-GB.
  12. Web site: Pick. Hella. Hella Pick. 7 May 2021. Cate Haste obituary. live. 3 July 2021. The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20210507172930/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/07/cate-haste-obituary . 7 May 2021.
  13. Web site: Volpe. Sam. 17 June 2021. Friends and family remember 'marvellous' Cate Haste. 3 July 2021. Hampstead & Highgate Express. en-UK.
  14. Bloomsbury,
  15. Lund Humphries,
  16. Lund Humphries,
  17. Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
  18. Chatto & Windus,
  19. Macmillan/C4,
  20. Chatto & Windus,
  21. Allen & Lane,
  22. Web site: The Paley Center for Media .
  23. Web site: Cold War – Production & Contact Info IMDbPro .
  24. Web site: Watch Cold War: The Complete Series Prime Video. Amazon .

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