Moving

Kanda Bongo Man

"Real people" start moving into the new bit of Broadcasting House from this weekend. Crates are being packed, after three days of tented events to mark the move of World Service from their home at Bush House. It's the suits (or shirts'n'chinos) of management who leave first from the twisty corridors and marble floors to the carpet tiles and glass vistas of the new building, to join the pathfinding technologists, worrying away over switching systems and the like.

Meanwhile, the Persian and Arabic teams, already in new build of Egton House, along with BBC London, may be puzzled at the renaming of that wing to honour John Peel  - at least, until someone explains to them that this is probably A GOOD THING; one of the few names the modern, nervous BBC management can agree on. Whether or not John would have thought it an appropriate or necessary tribute is a different matter.