Correspondent, broadcaster BBC Newsnight, Panorama, ITV Exposure documentaries, BBC Radio, print etc since time began. Now anyone's until time expires.
Lovely obit for a lovely player. Disappointed during Sunday's minutes applause that no one sang his song. "Na na na na, hey hey, Peter Cormack." I did (quietly). These things matter..
Lennon & McCartney both had their moments as solo artists. But the revisionism that says one or other of the two was the ‘real genius’ is just pish and not borne out by the quality of either’s post Beatles output. Those boys had the ultimate chemistry. 2+2 = 5 invented for them.
We did a BBC Panorama in 2011, then it became a radio series...now it's a book. The Trillion Dollar Conman - one of the most extraordinary stories you'll ever hear.. https://t.co/PomBSYFjDY
This is nuts. How can the BBC now afford to lose someone who's so consistently produced important, intelligent, compelling broadcasting? And in the very week of her brilliant Grenfell series!
Today is my last day at the BBC. To be totally open, I’m being made redundant
Whether running More Or Less during the pandemic, reporting on Grenfell & the climate, I’m extraordinarily proud of my work
Public service broadcasting can be engaging & essential & I hope to continue
Roger was brilliant. Instrumental in getting hundreds of stories broadcast. Always wise and, just as important, interested. With Roger you were safe and solid facing restrictive libel laws. A lovely man too. Hard to do Roger Law justice (no pun but absolutely apt). What a loss.
Very sad news. The brilliant BBC lawyer Roger Law has died. So many BBC producers & reporters will be eternally grateful to Roger for getting their films on air over last four decades. He was a legendary figure, perhaps the best-ever lawyer in history of broadcast journalism.
Auf Wiedersehen Pet series 2 currently running on ITV4. One of its scriptwriters was Stan Hey, who co-launched the pioneering football fanzine Foul in mid-70s. Forerunner of When Saturday Comes and Off the Ball
Odds on Joe Gomez coming on and scoring the winner in Berlin: 5,000-1?
50,000-1? If/when it happens all
nations will unite in peace &harmony, hungry will be fed, the homeless sheltered. But only when Joe G scores.
Watch this it’s fascinating - I asked James Timpson what he’d do about prisons and sentencing if he was in charge. He believes only a third of prisoners in jail should definitely be there. He’s now in charge of prisons (but not sentencing).