Gong Fest for 2025

A fairish cluster of gongs for people with BBC in their cvs for the start of 2025. 

Stephen (Fry and Laurie, QI, Jeeves) Fry is knighted. 

Mai Fyfield, once with Sky and now a non-exec on the BBC Commercial Board, moves to be a CBE, as does investigative journalist-Troubles-specialist Peter Taylor, now 82. Martin Brundle, F1 driver turned grid-walker, had two years with BBC Sport; he becomes an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Alan Hansen, 18 years a professional footballer, 22 a pundit, becomes a Member of the Order of the British Empire. 

Jasmine Dotiwala gets the OBE; she worked on the BBC Children's Development team, and 'yoof' music. Later she had a weekly show on BBC London. 

Steve Lamacq, of Radio London, XFM, Radio 1 and 6Music is made an MBE for his campaigning to support live music venues. Jackie Bird (Weir), for 30 years the main presenter of Reporting Scotland, becomes an MBE; her Wikipedia entry also awards her a Damehood. 

Novelist Robert Harris, once a Newsnight producer, is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. BBC Radio Manchester’s Eamonn O’Neal gets an OBE for services to charitable causes and people with disabilities.

Alan Fred Titchmarsh (Radio 2, Breakfast News, Chelsea Flower Show, Gardeners' World, Ground Force, Songs of Praise) is appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. 

There's a rather belated OBE for Tom Baker, now 90, and for Happy Valley's Sarah Lancashire