Not the presenter, the cultural theorist and academic who coined the term Thatcherism and formed a large part of the 'New Left' and important member of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, which did a lot of important work in how popular culture works (and was relatively jargon free and insightful).
Had a phone call yesterday from a branch member who had just read Stuart Hall's obituary in the Independent. He said he had read him before he joined the Party, so he can't have been all bad or completely useless even though he did describe him as an "academic Tony Benn", i.e a well-meaning but confused leftwinger.