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Some late reading for members of Bernard Jenkin's Public Administration Select Committee as they prepare to interview the Kids Company Duo of Batmanghelidjh and Yentob, courtesy of Newsnight and Buzzfeed. I hope the Parliament Live servers can cope at 9.40am. 

Meanwhile, a contribution to those settings odds on the next BBC Director of Television from former BBC PR man-now-with-Burberry Julian Payne, tipping Jay Hunt, Peter Fincham, Charlotte Moore, with a side bet on Alan Yentob.  Al's daughter Bella made her Burberry catwalk debut in London last month.

My personal bets for successor to the great Danny Cohen: Hunt, Fincham, Moore with £5 each way on Yentob http://t.co/SdSfDcoBwJ

— Julian Payne (@juliancomms) October 14, 2015