Process

 A small prize for the first hack to discover what sort of Netflix account the ineffable Nadine Dorries holds -  basic, standard or premium. A larger prize, of course, if someone can show she claims it. And the top prize, the full list of needy relatives caring Nad is supporting in this account-sharing.

The intelligent voices in the future funding of the BBC debate have so far made it clear that first, you should determine what you want the organisation to produce, and then find a way of funding it that make sense.

Nadine has decided she simply won't have the licence fee, and wants to start with a six-month review of other funding options, lead by someone she identifies as 'independent'.

The Peacock Committee, Mrs Thatcher's intervention on BBC funding, took a year and 63 days to reach its conclusions over 1985 and 1986. There are some members of the group still ticking over - Judith Chalmers, economist Jeremy Hardie, and Lord 'Round Britain Quiz' Quinton. 

In the upper house, Lord Burns is a cross-bencher who's already conducted one review of BBC governance, back in 2005. However he's unlikely to be classed as 'independent' by Nad, having railed against privatisation of C4. Other cross-benchers with broadcasting experience - Lord Birt, Lord Sugar, Lord Hall and Lord 'Private Passions' Berkeley. Or perhaps she'll turn to the wider media experience of Lord Lebedev.  

Sir Alan Peacock's report, all those years ago, envisaged a future where there would be an indefinite number of cable and satellite channels to be paid for by pay-per-programme or pay-per-channel.  Mrs Thatcher wanted a BBC funded by advertising; Peacock recommended subscription, but was ignored.