Re: [Swprograms] Serendipity on BBC World Service

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Then would it be putting too fine a point on things to observe that  
this dissonance seems to typify planning and management at the World  
Service in its more recent "post-modern" era?

Just musing a bit...

John Figliozzi

On Mar 15, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Mike Barraclough wrote:

> 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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