Once a Controller...

Mark Damazer has turned St Peter's into the intellectual Palladium of Oxford University. Turns booked by the former Controller of Radio 4 this calendar year include Janet Suzman, Kenneth Cranham, David Mitchell, Philip Pullman, Shami Chakrabarti, Lord Patten (x 2), Lord Hall of Birkenhead, Professor Colin Blakemore, Ken Loach - with down-the-bill appearances from Mark Lawson and Andrew Marr.

All achieved on much less than the £99m budget he ran at Broadcasting House. A nice meal and a memorial cushion are the way Mark swings it now...