IT seems that nobody leaves the BBC these days with good grace. More often than not there is a sting in the tail or a back handed compliment intended to slap back at the corporation.
It was not so long ago that a generation of time-servers, suitably remunerated over the years left to join new opportunities at Times Radio or at exciting new podcast opportunities like Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel’s The News Agents.
Maitlis marked her departure with a barnstorming McTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, rounding on the recent diktat of “impartiality”, which has been directed from on high by the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie (below).
