DG: The Memoirs of a British Broadcaster

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'I was acutely nervous the morning of 10th December 1981.1 arrived at Broadcasting House far too early and bumped into George Howard (the Chairman) on the front doorstep. We went our separate ways. I had been told to present myself at his office at 9.10 a.m., but where to lurk in the meantime? All potentially friendly offices were locked. I settled, feeling hunted, on the lavatory on the second floor where I paced up and down until discovered by a friendly face and forced to flee '
By 7.20 that evening Alasdair Milne was Director-General of the BBC.
Little more than five years later on 29th January 1987, following a normal Board of Governors meeting, Milne was asked to go and see Marmdduke Hussey, the Chairman, and Joel Bamett, his deputy. 'He wants me to go immediately - "It's a unanimous decision of the Board." I write my resignation and walk out of the BBC.'
Between those two momentous events Milne, who had joined the BBC in 1954 straight from Oxford, had to cope with the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'I was acutely nervous the morning of 10th December 1981.1 arrived at Broadcasting House far too early and bumped into George Howard (the Chairman) on the front doorstep. We went our separate ways. I had been told to present myself at his office at 9.10 a.m., but where to lurk in the meantime? All potentially friendly offices were locked. I settled, feeling hunted, on the lavatory on the second floor where I paced up and down until discovered by a friendly face and forced to flee '
By 7.20 that evening Alasdair Milne was Director-General of the BBC.
Little more than five years later on 29th January 1987, following a normal Board of Governors meeting, Milne was asked to go and see Marmdduke Hussey, the Chairman, and Joel Bamett, his deputy. 'He wants me to go immediately - "It's a unanimous decision of the Board." I write my resignation and walk out of the BBC.'
Between those two momentous events Milne, who had joined the BBC in 1954 straight from Oxford, had to cope with the reporting of the Falklands war, the miners' strike, alleged falling standards at the BBC, relations with a hostile Government Real Lives fracas, the Princess Michael of Kent affair, the Pandrama libel action, the Secrei Society cast.
If that was not enough the future of the BBC itself was urider scrutiny via the Peacock Committee, licence fee negotiations had to be battled through ari.d opportunities for satellite broadcasting considered.
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