New BBC Chair

[subcontrabass]

Has this announcement slipped past: https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...t-bbc-chairman ?

[Frances_iom]

no - just one rich banker paying off an old mate - since the banking/finance market has the morals of a pack of hyenas I expect real problems for the Beeb but maybe our current demagogues with their love of American attitudes might be having second thoughts before they destroy more of the social glue that keeps the various groups occupying these isles together

[DracoM]

Agreed. Ominous times ahead? Davie + Rishi's mate..............crikey!

[Pulcinella]

The Times has a profile of him with the heading: Tory donor with a love of culture.
We can perhaps hope that he will bring some to the Beeb.
Sadly, he studied PPE at Oxford (a subject that in my opinion should be banned for the harm it does to society!).

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/richard-sharp-to-become-next-chairman-of-the-bbc-dkjz8wd5q?shareToken=eeac686ce9ae4f813c181da0590f1b46

[ardcarp]

Oh dear, I read the thread title as 'New BBC Choir'. What a disappointment.

[Serial_Apologist]

Tory donor with a love of culture.

Bourgeois culture.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Sharp was also, whilst at Goldman Sachs, the person who backed Philip Greene financially in his (or probably, of course, his wife's bid) to take over M & Spencer, in 2004.

OTOH a board colleague at G Sachs told the Guardian that he is more conservative than Conservative and will interested in protecting the worth of the BBC than partisan and concerned to deliver Johnson's wish list .

[DracoM]

House of Commons

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

PRE-APPOINTMENT HEARING: PREFERRED CANDIDATE FOR BBC CHAIR

Thursday 14 January 2021, 14.30

Watch LIVE on BBC parliament.tv

[oddoneout]

Oh dear, I read the thread title as 'New BBC Choir'. What a disappointment.

Ditto!
Richard Sharp apparently involved currently or formerly with https://musicmasters.org.uk/ and the Royal Academy of Arts which are entries for the 'pro' column.

[BBMmk2]

Saw this on the news, and thought, ahem....