In case you don't wade through all of the Sunday Times, an extract from Rod Liddle's all-too-detailed-but-probably-right-commentary on the career of Ed Stourton.
"Ed was foisted upon me when I was editor of the Today programme back in 1999. I wasn’t best pleased. He had just been sacked as the presenter of the BBC One O’Clock News because - so it was alleged - he was too “posh”. Some shadowy cabal of BBC executives gathered together and decided to give him the boot and sweeten the pill by awarding him a whole bunch of shifts presenting the Today programme, plus some other stuff".
The narrative misses the tension the move of Ed from tv to radio caused between Tony Hall and Jenny Abramsky at that time - and for some while afterwards.
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