Lord Reith
The BBC is trapped in its own smug bubble
An incalculable number of trees have been hewn down recently in order to provide paper for people writing lengthy, largely…
The story of the BBC
The BBC was created out of the ether in 1922. Its first director general, Lord Reith, inhabited a cupboard some…
Why BBC Arabic is booming
Last weekend BBC Arabic celebrated 77 years since John Reith (as he then was) launched the first foreign-language service of…
Daring? No. Well written? Yes
This has all the appearance of a book invented by a publisher. Two years ago W. Sydney Robinson published an…
