The Chapel of St Peter's College, Oxford, might expect a few more camera crews than usual for next week's events. Former BBC DG Mark Thompson is giving a series of lectures under the light-hearted title, The Cloud of Unknowing. Spookily, it does not refer to the fact that nobody senior at Auntie seemed to know anything bad about Jimmy Savile until an ITV programme at the start of October this year.
There are three talks - "Is Plato winning the argument ?", "Consign it to the flames", and "Not in my name", followed by a symposium, "Politics and Language - Friends or Enemies".
The PR world is taking an interest. Mark's status as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Rhetoric and the Art of Public Persuasion in honour of Philip Gould has been made possible by Freud Communications, and is being hosted at St Peter's, where the Master is ex-Radio 4 Controller Mark Damazer. Former BBC Director of Communications Ed Williams might well be there - now UK boss of Edelman, Ed is advising Thommo on his personal PR as he heads towards The New York Times with increasing US media interest in the Savile affair.
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