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Radio

Head ache

6 October 2016

2:00 PM

6 October 2016

2:00 PM

Quite how one person is expected to oversee not just radio but also ‘arts, music, learning and children’s departments’ was not made clear by the BBC when it announced the stratospheric rise to power within the corporation of James Purnell as the new director of everything that’s not TV or light entertainment.

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