Wednesday, 7 May 2014

To be its Controller was like inheriting a long-established country estate

[David Hatch] talked of Radio Four as 'the soul of the BBC', 'the last bastion' of the Reithian mission to inform, educate, and entertain. To be its Controller was like inheriting a long-established country estate that has to be handed on intact.

D. Hendy, Life on air: a history of Radio Four (2007), 299

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