Speak up

BBC DG Lord Hall may prefer to support his 300-odd Glastonbury troops from home, but he wasn't far away yesterday. He popped in to the National Trust's Barrington Court, some 25 miles south of Worthy Farm, to watch shooting of Wolf Hall.

The six-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's novel stars Damian Lewis as Henry VIII and Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. The visit was gushingly welcomed by director Peter Kosminsky, but he may have tweeted before being issued with a set of anti-mumbling guidelines....

Thirty five years making television programmes and such a thing has never happened before. Leadership. #wolfhall
— Peter Kosminsky (@kosmoSFL) June 27, 2014