Going gong

The BBC usually gets four "behind the scenes" gongs in any one Honours List - but the New Year haul seems down on quota.

There's former Archers supremo, Vanessa Victoria Whitburn, and BBC News cameraman Darren Conway (on the Foreign Secretary's list), plus, from the Welsh broadcasting dynasty of the same name, Geraint Talfan Davies, who was Controller BBC Wales 1990-2000.

Then I struggle to find a fourth. Roger Parry was a freelance BBC reporter in the late 70s, but his gong is for trustee work with the Globe Theatre. DJ Pete Tong, comedy writer and actress Ruth Jones, and Sandra Birgitte Toksvig must count as talent.

Elsewhere we note awards for Candy Devine aka Mrs Faye Anne Mcleod, now back in her native Australia after 37 years as a DJ on Downtown Radio in Northern Ireland; and for Carol Pemberton, founder of the Birmingham acapella group Black Voices, aunt of Laura Mvula.

• 2nd January update - found the fourth !  Former See Hear producer Terry Riley, now chair of the British Deaf Association, was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting and deaf people.