This reminds me of one of the late '70s Carry On films, before they turned fully to smut. (View Post)

Amazing that it should take a crisp seller to raise any objection to a policy that may be internationally illegal, and not have any precedents in any other modern Western countries. That's reall… (View Post)

Just as a final point on placemen, it is possible to be a placeman and still produce good results, because in the late '80s and early 1990s the BBC produced some of its best ever material, and C… (View Post)

Re; poliitical appointees, and the discussion yesterday, you could still easily describe Birt as a political appointee. He was brought in during the Major period by MIchael Checkland, who was brought… (View Post)

Morning all. It's indeed true that Birt had experience of TV, like Greg Dyke. But the crtical fact is that he signed over , almost, the entire restructurng of the BBC to an outside body, in the … (View Post)