Dining in

I've spent a little time musing who Roger Mosey could invite to High Table at Selwyn College when the 'slebs aren't available. Since Dame Patrica Hodgson (former BBC policy and planning supremo under John Birt) left Newnham College, just across Sidgwick Avenue, I can't find any other colleges with former Beeb staffers in high places. But Dame Fiona Reynolds, non-executive director at the Beeb, will be at the Master's Lodge of Emmanuel from October. And Paul Mylerea, former BBC Comms Director, is about to take over Comms for the University.

And there are others round about: Trevor Dann, one-time producer of DLT, The Old Grey Whistle Test and aide-de-camp to Matthew Bannister, an alumnus of Fitzwilliam, lives in the city, and occasionally, as befits a former Chief Exec of the Radio Academy, strays onto the airwaves of Cambridge 105fm.  At Radio Cambridgeshire, there's Paul Barnes, now 70, with a regular regional jazz show; he used to be a reporter on Newsbeat, Today and The World At One. And Keith "Cardboard Shoes" Skues, ex Radio 1, with a Sunday evening show (74). Slightly younger there's Chris Mann at Drivetime, ex network BBC, but remembered more for his time at Sky News.

Younger still: John Cary, former Dep Ed on Today and Radio 5 Live is around, having moved when he joined the Cambridge Evening News. John's now with the NCTJ.  Peter Phillips, former finance head in BBC News, is now Chief Executive of the Cambridge University Press.