Graphic designer whose career was ruined after the Martin Bashir scandal is set for £1m payout

Graphic designer whose career was ruined after he exposed the Martin Bashir scandal is set for £1m payout from the BBC (funded out of viewers’ licence fees, of course) Director-general Tim Davie will meet whistleblower Matt Wiessler on Thursday Sources say Mr Wiessler could receive payout of £1million from the Corporation  Graphic designer was asked … Read more

Graphic designer whose career was ruined after the Martin Bashir scandal is set for £1m payout

Graphic designer whose career was ruined after he exposed the Martin Bashir scandal is set for £1m payout from the BBC (funded out of viewers’ licence fees, of course) Director-general Tim Davie will meet whistleblower Matt Wiessler on Thursday Sources say Mr Wiessler could receive payout of £1million from the Corporation  Graphic designer was asked … Read more

The little bird with very large songbook: A delightful miscellany of nightingale fact and fiction

NATURE THE NIGHTINGALE  by Sam Lee (Century £14.99, 240pp)  At 10.45pm on May, 19, 1924, BBC radio announcer Rex Palmer interrupted the Saturday evening broadcast by dance band The Savoy Orpheans to whisk listeners into a Surrey woodland, where cellist Beatrice Harrison had been joined by a nightingale. In those days, just two years after … Read more

Gary Lineker to step down as BT Sport’s presenter for Champions League coverage after this weekend

Gary Lineker to step down as BT Sport’s presenter for Champions League coverage after six years in the role… as he reveals plans to spend weekday evenings watching Leicester in Europe with his sons Gary Lineker will resign as BT Sport’s Champions League presenter this week His last show will be Saturday’s final between Chelsea … Read more

Gary Lineker to step down as BT Sport’s presenter for Champions League coverage after this weekend

Gary Lineker to step down as BT Sport’s presenter for Champions League coverage after six years in the role… as he reveals plans to spend weekday evenings watching Leicester in Europe with his sons Gary Lineker will resign as BT Sport’s Champions League presenter this week His last show will be Saturday’s final between Chelsea … Read more