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George Entwistle

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George Edward Entwistle (born 8 July 1962) was Director-General of the BBC during 2012, succeeding Mark Thompson. [1]

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Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green

Robert Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green (14 May 1942 – 17 January 2014) was a British businessman, politician and author who was an advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Films

BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the BBC.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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BBC HD

BBC HD was a high-definition television channel provided by the BBC.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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BBC Three

BBC Three was a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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BBC Trust

The BBC Trust was the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 2007 and 2017.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Ben Bradshaw

Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Exeter since 1997 and was the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 2009 to 2010.

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British Academy Television Awards

The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTA TV Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

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Broadcast (magazine)

Broadcast is a weekly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry.

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Broadcast journalism

Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are "broadcast", that is, published by electrical methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters.

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Chris Patten

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, (born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who served as the 28th and final Governor of Hong Kong from 1992-1997.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, formerly the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, is one of the Select Committees of the British House of Commons, established in 1997.

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Director-General of the BBC

The Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and (from 1994) editor-in-chief of the BBC.

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Durham University

Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, with a second campus in Stockton-on-Tees.

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Durham, England

Durham (locally) is a historic city and the county town of County Durham in North East England.

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Feature film

A feature film is a film (also called a motion picture or movie) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole film to fill a program.

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Greg Dyke

Gregory Dyke (born 20 May 1947) is a British media executive, football administrator, journalist and broadcaster.

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Haymarket Media Group

Haymarket Media Group is a privately held media company headquartered in London.

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Independent school

An independent school is independent in its finances and governance; it is usually not dependent upon national or local government to finance its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, donations, and in some cases the investment yield of an endowment.

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Jana Bennett

Jana Eve Bennett OBE (born 1956) is President and General Manager of History and H2 at A+E Networks in New York.

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Janice Hadlow

Janice Vivienne Hadlow (born 15 November 1957 in Lewisham) is a British television executive.

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Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Dickson Paxman (born 11 May 1950) is a British broadcaster, journalist, and author.

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Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal

Jimmy Savile (1926–2011) was an English media personality who was well known in the United Kingdom for his eccentricities and, at the time of his death, was generally respected for his charitable work.

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John Humphrys

Desmond John Humphrys (born 17 August 1943) is a Welsh broadcaster.

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John Ware (TV journalist)

John Ware is a British journalist, author, and investigative reporter.

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London Borough of Wandsworth

The London Borough of Wandsworth is a London borough in England, and forms part of Inner London.

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Mark Thompson (media executive)

Mark John Thompson (born 31 July 1957)“THOMPSON, Mark John Thompson,” in Who's Who 2009 (London: A & C Black, 2008); online ed., (Oxford: OUP, 2008),.

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Michael Crick

Michael Lawrence Crick (born 21 May 1958)Ian Burrell The Independent website, 19 September 2011.

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Newsnight

Newsnight is a weekday BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.

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North Wales child abuse scandal

The North Wales child abuse scandal was the subject of a three-year, £13 million investigation into the physical and sexual abuse of children in care homes in the counties of Clwyd and Gwynedd, in North Wales, including the Bryn Estyn children's home at Wrexham, between 1974 and 1990.

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On the Record (UK TV programme)

On the Record was a weekly political television show aired by the BBC in the United Kingdom between 1988 and 2002.

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Panorama (TV series)

Panorama is a BBC Television investigative current affairs documentary programme.

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Peter Barron

Peter Barron (born 1962) is a Northern Irish journalist and Google's head of communications for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

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Royal Television Society

The Royal Television Society, or RTS, is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future.

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Silcoates School

Silcoates School is a co-educational independent school in the village of Wrenthorpe near Wakefield, England.

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St Catherine's College, Oxford

St Catherine's College (often called Catz by college members) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.

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Television producer

A television producer is a person who oversees all aspects of video production on a television program.

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Tessa Jowell

Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, (17 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was a British Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1997 to 2015, having previously been elected as the MP for Dulwich in 1992.

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The Culture Show

The Culture Show was a weekly BBC Two arts magazine programme, focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture, music, visual fashion and the performing arts.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Tim Davie

Timothy Douglas Davie (born 25 April 1967) is the Chief Executive Officer of BBC Studios (formerly known as BBC Worldwide) who served as acting Director-General of the BBC following George Entwistle's resignation in November 2012 until Lord Hall took over the role permanently in April 2013.

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Tomorrow's World

Tomorrow's World was a long-running BBC television series on new developments in science and technology.

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Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead

Anthony William Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, (born 3 March 1951) is the Director-General of the BBC.

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University College, Durham

University College, informally known as Castle, is a college of the University of Durham in England.

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Wakefield

Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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Wrenthorpe

Wrenthorpe is a village north-west of Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Entwistle

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