FREE TO AIR - BBC needs pruning back.

A favourite volume on my shelf of media titles is Michael Leapman's spectacularly unprescient The Last Days of the Beeb. It was published in 1986 after the Real Lives furore, a disappointing licence fee settlement and the parachuting in of Michael Grade to forestall a ratings collapse

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