This obituary, by Pat Taylor, appeared in Ariel:

Kenneth Hutchens died on January 10th, just a few months short of his 91st birthday.  Ken, or Hutch, as he was usually called, joined the BBC in 1948 after serving in the Palestine police.
His first job on leaving school had been with the family firm, the music publisher Francis Day and Hunter.  The commuting business life, though, was too tame for Hutch.  On learning that he had been accepted by the Palestine police he said he cycled home on a bicycle with wings.
In Palestine he certainly found adventure.  He just missed being blown up in the bombing of the King David Hotel.  When in the CID he anticipated by some 60 years John Simpson's exploit of entering Afghanistan dressed in a burqa by wearing Arab female dress to get closer to possible insurgents.
Ken was fluent in Arabic and in 1944 he became a censor for the Palestine Broadcasting Service.  On his reurn to Britain he applied to join the Arabic section of the BBC - and found himself given a job in the Scandinavian section.
Before long Ken moved to newstalks and then became a scriptwriter and producer on Radio Newsreel, which at that time went out on the domestic service as well as on the World Service.
Later he was assigned to the afternoon sequence and was part of the team which produced the World At One and PM under the editorship of Andrew Boyle.  The formidable ex-editor of the Daily Mail, William Hardcastle was the presenter.
Ken took early retirement in 1972 and with his wife Nina and fellow BBC colleague Tess Foyle opened a stall in the Portobello Road dealing in Georgian glass and silver.  He was still busy in the market until just before Christmas.
Hutch had a strong artistic side and was chairman of the BBC Art Society for 20 years and contributed pictures to the Club's annual exhibitions.
At his funeral, his daughter Sharman described him as a good husband, a good father, a good grandfather, a good father-in-law and a good friend.  Those who worked with him will certainly endorse that tribute.