Quite a haul for BBC connections in the second King Charles' Birthday Honours. Topping the list is an even grander Damehood for Jenny Abramsky, now 77, who left the BBC in 2008 as Director of Audio & Music, to be replaced by Tim Davie. She was first made a Dame in 2009. The citation: Media Producer and Philanthropist. For services to Arts, to Media and to Culture. For many years she sat on the Arts & Media Honours Committee - now BBC chair Samir Shah is on that committee.
It's never really clear whether or not Alan Yentob, also 77, has left the BBC, but he's now a CBE. Barbara Slater, officially replaced this week as Director of Sport, is upgraded from OBE to CBE. Roy Noble, still hosting a Sunday show on Radio Wales at 81, also becomes a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, after his 2001 OBE for charity work.
Nick Owen, formerly of Anne and Nick, and still fronting Midlands Today, becomes an MBE. He says opening the letter was a 'real wow moment'.
There's an OBE for Di Spiers, Audio Executive Director for Books, BBC. Di's first radio credit was for abridged Woman's Hour serials in 1994. She produced the first ever Book of the Week and has directed scores of Book at Bedtimes, dramatisations and short stories, as well as an active producers of radio book club shows. She's been a driver of the BBC National Short Story Award since it began in 2005, is the returning judge on the panel and is also behind the BBC Young Writers Award.
Former BBC business and technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones joins the OBE.
Ally Castle, who's worked previously for the BBC as both an audience planner and disability consultant, gets the MBE for services to inclusivity and diversity. As does her consultant partner, Tanya Motie, who worked for the BBC in various roles for 26 years.
More tangentially, the BBC can claim an interest in Armando Iannucci, Amy Dowden and Rose Ayling-Ellis.
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