The collective noun for Directors-General, past and present, of the BBC needs work by next Tuesday. The Culture Select Committee, under Julian Knight, will try to out-Dyson Dyson, by grilling, in order, Lord Hall, Lord Birt and Tim Davie. Tim Davie is allowed to bring a prisoner's friend, in (executive) chairman Richard Sharp.
This all presumes that the Ken MacQuarrie report on the re-hiring of Martin Bashir is out - I'm hearing Friday.
Why Birt? He was a disaster for the Corporation. He may have been a bulwalk against the Tories but his legacy of "the price of everything and the value of nothing" lives on to this day with Tim.
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