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It's two weeks to the publication of the BBC Annual Report, set for 12th July, which should mean all the copy is in the hands of the printers. The report is usually a celebratory, glossy document - but will it have a DQF feel this year ?  Viewers, licence-fee payers, staff and the popular press have become much more interested in metrics over the year - the cost per listener/viewer hour, the funding by channel, the Executive Board salaries and perks, Mark Byford's severance deal, etc.  The photos have become a distraction.

However, there will be an inevitable section on A History of The World in 100 Objects; and another on Sherlock - the current (and too-oft-repeated) radio and tv code words for "quality" and "innovation".  The future ?  Well, despite a series of anodyne "workplans", the shape of the BBC over the next six years is anyone's guess until at least September, when the Trust reconvene after France and Tuscany. A glossy brochure then would be nice.

• The BBC world is changing. Twitter spotted Jana Bennett at Glastonbury, and Andy Parfitt at the second Aung San Suu Kyi lecture at the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House. Andy, however, was wearing a white vest.