Loner Rona

Odds and ends we learned from Rona Fairhead's confirmation session in front of the Culture Select Committee....

She's "never been politically active".

She spends 50 days a year on her commitments to HSBC, including chairing HSBC America.

She's got used to sleeping on planes.

She was approached by headhunters Saxton Bampfylde about the BBC Trust job in early June - when Lord Coe was still in play.

She was interviewed formally twice - once by a panel chaired by an independent public assessor, and then for an hour by Culture Secretary Sajid Javid on August 26th. Then followed a conversation with David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

She says she's only met George Osborne at "formal functions" and "across the room at parents' meetings".

She wakes up to the Today programme on Radio 4, and goes to bed with either Radio 4 or the News Channel. The BBC provides "the news that I trust". Is the BBC impartial ? "Broadly, yes".

Other honourable mentions in consumption: Sherlock, The Honourable Woman, Our Zoo, Strictly, Match of the Day, Dr Who, Wimbledon, rugby union, Brian Cox, David Attenborough.

If her current workload proves too much, she's ready to shed other jobs to make time available for the Trust. She's also ready to sell her Pearson shares, should that be the Trust advice on formal appointment; but at the moment, she's hanging on...