The Times has got some more of the 3,000 email exchanges the BBC didn't want Andy Webb (and us) to see.
Robert Seatter, BBC Head of History was apparently working with BBC lawyers Peter De Val and Elizabeth Grace on keeping the lid on the emails. Private Eye would have loved to have scripted this.
Seatter: “PS is my knighthood to follow after this?! I somehow think not.”
Grace: “Can you do a deep curtsy?”
De Val: “I don’t think any of us will be appearing in the honours list for a while … And the Grenadier Guards do still work for Her.”
Seatter: “No, I think you may be right: ‘Services to heritage and inappropriate revelation’ doesn’t have the right ring, does it?”
De Val: “Get you a 10-stretch in The Tower … do they still have the Rack there? I expect so.”
Grace: “A short stretch in the Tower would be my preference — I am a bit over this saga (and it would just be lockdown minus [redacted details] and chores).”
Robert went to Lincoln College Oxford, before teaching and joining BBC Education; Peter De Val was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1988; Elizabeth Grace qualified as a solicitor in 2001.
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