I just tried looking up the Fremony on the British Newspaper Archive, which includes the Peterborough Standard. However, its 1970s coverage only covers 1976 for some reason. A reminder of the gaps of the archive.

I mean, resurrecting James Bond within the narrative means that he can finally make a trinity of the popular culture British heroes of modernity, alongside Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who.

“Is it time to rethink prejudice against throwing knives at students?” - by Tim Zarbi, CEO of EduKnives.

The transcript and video are right here. Panorama could just as easily have played those 40 seconds near the end to make the same point. www.npr.org/2021/02/10/9...

Tips for the next DG:

1 - Don't stake your future on impartiality. Perfect impartiality is impossible. Focus on accuracy and accountability. Let journalists and producers do their job. If they get it badly wrong, sack them.

2 - Reverse the deliberate, prolonged cut to arts programming.

* Radio 3 Late Junction back to two hours, three times a week, starting at 11pm.
* New prime time series in which Matt Berry and Tom Baker visit a different pub each week, and it’s just two hours of them talking about whatever they want.

Also - very well done to whoever at Film4 prepared *Late Night with the Devil* for broadcast and matched the real advert breaks to the fictional ones.

I thought that at first, but I don’t see where - the two words it’s pulled out are clearly spaced, and there’s a semicolon.