You're never far from a Mail reporter, even at the Charleston Arts Festival in Sussex. It's essentially a tented book fair, at a farmhouse just east of Lewes. Last Friday, David Dimbleby was "in conversation" with Charles Saumarez Smith of the Royal Academy of the Arts. Today, that conversation provides a headline story.
Dimbleby, now 71, said "We have this great cry under our revered leader [Thommo the DG] which is 'one BBC', but in truth nobody ever has the slightest clue what anybody else is doing. We discovered, after we'd been working on Seven Ages of Britain for a year, that Neil MacGregor was doing those 100 objects and it was a complete surprise.. They've suddenly got a real interest in both history and history of art in a way they dropped for 20 years".
As this blog noted in March.
Presumably Mr Dimbleby wasn't so upset by this lack of co-ordination that he failed to sign a few copies of Seven Ages of Britain (author D Dimbleby, publisher BBC). £25 in hardback, now available on Amazon at £12.48, with free delivery.
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