[Swprograms] Serendipity on BBC World Service

[Mike Barraclough <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the last Private Eye we reported how BBC World
Service commissioning editor Harriet Green had
justified the axing of Off The Shelf, the station's
literature programme, by assuring worried listeners
that "all the information we have indicates that
serendipity is not what people want".

But do all Ms Green's colleagues agree with her? At
least one does not. In a speech to the "Oxford
Inspires" group last October, he opined that "one of
the BBC's greatest strengths in culture has been the
power of serendipity, the potential for a general
audience to bump into something unexpected or
intriguing, something which could be the start of a
new journey, a new discovery."

His name? Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC.

(Private Eye, March 17th)


	
	
		
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