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Richard Sharp will not lead a BBC revolution

8 January 2021

6:00 PM

8 January 2021

6:00 PM

If you wanted to start a revolution would you choose an Oxford educated multi-millionaire banker to lead it? Not the obvious choice is it? Which is why the news that the next chairman of the BBC Board is to be ex-Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp looks very like a retreat from any serious attempt to reform the Corporation.

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