Breaking: Liz Forgan refuses to debate cuts live with Lebrecht

Breaking: Liz Forgan refuses to debate cuts live with Lebrecht

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norman lebrecht

March 30, 2011

Dame Liz Forgan, chair of Arts Council England, has been asked to justify her cuts live on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme this evening.

I was asked by the programme’s editor to appear opposite her.
Liz has just told the BBC that she won’t appear with Lebrecht – ‘and you can tell him I said so’.
Unlike her to run scared of a fight. She must be feeling on very shaky ground.

                                          photo: ACE
Either way, one of us will have to record our comments beforehand so that Liz does not have to face me.
Appropriate conduct for a public official? Hey-ho.
LATE  EXTRA: Arts and Business chief Colin Tweedy tells me she made the same condition with Radio 4’s World at One when he was due to debate cuts with her last November.

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