Appointed by Tory placeman Michael Checkland, who was in turn responsible for the exodus of people like Dennis Potter to Channel 4. Checkland had, in turn, originally himself been appointed to counte… (View Post)

Indeed. The 1980's BBC was social-democratic on issues like poverty, for instance. The current BBC is not. It was also full of a mixture of interesting patricians and left-leaning playwrights an… (View Post)

You're right,Kinabalu ;.)! (View Post)

The BBC journalistic consensus since 2010 has tended to be left-of-centre on cultural issues and rightwing on economic and social issues. What's happening now is that there are so many Tory plac… (View Post)

Attenborough ofcourse, in himself, also represents the golden era of BBC cultural and intellectual output before Birt. A very open-minded but also royalist intellectual, who made BBC2 one of the best… (View Post)