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...Much like Lord Reith stated TV should be. Reading your article “Does Sunak’s maths revival add up?”...
...The moment when Tom Hollander’s Berezovsky realises just how far he has underestimated the new president has the force of a scene from Richard III....
...Letter in response to this article: Lineker, 1930s Germany and Lord Reith’s diaries / From Martin Shankleman, London N1, UK...
...Even the usually cautious Professor Tom Kirkwood, the distinguished Newcastle University biologist and former Reith lecturer who has advised the UK’s House of Lords on ageing, does not write off radical...
...It’s Reithian,” he says, referring to Lord Reith, the BBC’s first director-general, who defined its mission as being to “educate, inform and entertain”....
...Richard Rogers approaches me in the hotel lobby, suddenly he veers to the right, where he has seen a guest he recognises. The two men warmly embrace....
...The Long ’68, by Richard Vinen, Allen Lane, RRP£20 A prizewinning historian on the wave of protests 50 years ago that shook governments in France and beyond....
...The book collects her five Massey Lectures broadcast last year (the Canadian equivalent of the BBC’s Reith Lectures), in which she arranges history’s characters into some more recognisably modern types:...
...She was vice-chair of the BBC Trust until April, and is a contributor to The BBC Today: Future Uncertain edited by John Mair, Richard Tait & Richard Keeble...
...Another, of course, is the BBC’s founding father John Reith, who left office in 1938 “clear in his view that television was a waste of time”....
...That was very much Lord Reith’s remit,” said Mr Steinitz. “I occasionally listen to Classic FM in desperation. It’s an ordeal.”...
.../ From Mr Robert Cassen A simulating exposition of modern art / From Richard and Malka Tomkins Is it good art or bad?...
...To pick just a few examples, there was Do No Harm by Henry Marsh, a gripping portrait of a brain surgeon’s life and work; Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, the American doctor-writer whose first Reith lecture...
...From Richard and Malka Tomkins....
...… The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99/ Knopf, RRP$26.95 Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize, this exquisitely written novel by the Australian author Richard...
...John Reith of the BBC, 1934 Winston Churchill “At dinner he was very gay and sang old-world Cockney songs with teddy bear gestures....
...It had a duty – for Damazer, enlightenment values and devotion to impartiality are an ideology close to a faith – to act on the first commandment of its founder, John Reith....
...Occasionally, some would say not often enough, it’s Ed Richards....
...essentials, Reith would have recognised....
...Ed Richards, chief executive of Ofcom, says simply: “We have a responsibility to analyse all credible options....
...But it appears Sir Richard Branson is not attempting to create guilt-ridden ex-customers....
...(The BBC’s founder, Lord Reith – never a great fan of television anyway – would not have been impressed. He never allowed popular opinion to infect his judgment....
...Audiences attuned to the outrages of David Baddiel are unlikely to get much, other than pleasant sedation, from the few script-corseted, Reith-censored recordings of Hancock’s Half Hour that survive in the...
...The leaders of the industrial revolution, such as Richard Arkwright, Robert Owen and Josiah Wedgwood, all served apprenticeships....
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