Fancy Capri at the end of September ? BBC Deputy Director of Radio Graham Ellis will be there. He's 'Il Presidente' of the 2018 Prix Italia proceedings, as he was over the 2017 event in Milan. "This is the broadcasting competition par excellence." says Graham.
This year the Prix celebrates its 70th aniversary, and the incomprehensible-in-any-language theme is "The Memory of The Future".
Mr Ellis is not the first BBC executive to preside over the Prix. Caroline Thomson, currently bringing her international expertise to Oxfam, was in charge for Milan, Venice and Verona, from 2005 to 2007. Spookily her father, Lord Thomson of Monifieth, presided over Pergugia and Palermo in 1989 and 1990 - the Prix records suggest he was there as a BBC rep, but as far as I can tell, he was Libdem spokesman on broadcasting at the time.
The first Beeboid to take the opportunity of an Italian break was Charles Curran, Venice and Milan, 1977 and 1978.
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