Cod on Ice
Andy Beckett: The BBC, 10 July 2003
Panorama: Fifty Years of Pride And Paranoia
by Richard Lindley.
Politico’s, 404 pp., £18.99, September 2002,1 902301 80 3 Show More
by Richard Lindley.
Politico’s, 404 pp., £18.99, September 2002,
“... that men are sometimes wicked on purpose; Robert Kee, the hot-eyed public prosecutor … When John Birt arrived at the BBC as Deputy Director-General at the end of the 1980s, apocalyptic assessments of the programme were back in fashion. According to Birt, the BBC’s Chairman, Marmaduke Hussey, regarded Panorama as a microcosm of a BBC that was ‘out of ... ”