What’s wrong with BBC Radio 3? Start at the top…

What’s wrong with BBC Radio 3? Start at the top…

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norman lebrecht

January 23, 2017

Damian Thomson in The Spectator has launched a List of  Topics We’d Rather Avoid On Radio 3.

Here’s one:

The career of Alan Davey, controller of Radio 3. His Wikipedia entry mentions that he was previously director of culture at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport — but not that he reported to secretary of state James Purnell. Nor does it record that Purnell backed Davey to be head of the Arts Council and — when Purnell slid from parliament to the BBC — beckoned him over to Radio 3.

More here.

 

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