Hooray Henley

I'm grateful to the Henley Standard for noting a connection beyond Jimmy Savile in recent management changes at the BBC.

Lord Hall of Birkenhead, who will become DG in early March, has a Grade II listed home in Henley. He is working with acting DG Tim Davie on other appointments - Tim lives in Peppard, (Greater Henley). 

Eventually Tim will become chief executive of BBC Worldwide in place of John Smith, who also has a home in Henley and is a director of the Henley Festival.

In other odd links, stepped-aside Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon is a former pupil of Gillots School, Henley. And Philip Schofield, who waved a note of names at David Cameron on This Morning, is a resident of Henley.