Twice

The week ahead throws up one reason the job of Deputy Director General BBC is no fun. On Wednesday, Anne Bulford appears twice in front of the Public Accounts Select Committee - once answering questions about paying presenters through personal service companies, and then facing MPs on the spending on a new set for Eastenders.

Lord Hall will be at her side throughout; Richard Dawkins, once strategist and money-man in BBC News, now consigliere in BBC Content, helps field the Eastenders questions. At least he can say he wasn't there when the scheme started....