Biased BBC (pt2) - The Jane Garvey transcript

Back to an earlier post; in case you didn't play the audio, here's a transcript:

"Jane Garvey: I do remember I walked back in - we were broadcasting then from Broadcasting House in the centre of London, all very upmarket in those days - and the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. [Hearty laugh from Peter Allen] I'll always remember that. Er... not that the BBC were celebrating in any way, shape or form…

Peter Allen: No not all...

Jane Garvey: ...and actually I think it's fair to say that in the intervening years... er... the BBC, if it ever was in love with Labour has probably fallen out of love with Labour, or learnt to fall back in, or basically just learnt to be in the middle somewhere which is how it should be. Um, but there was always the suggestion that the BBC was full of pinkos who couldn't wait for Labour to get back into power. That may have been the case - who knows - but as I say there have been a few problems along the way over the last ten years. Wish I hadn't started this now. "


The BBC impartial under their charter but not in real life.

Of course it was all different after 1997 wasn't it? Well there was the BBC Chairman of the Bord of Governors from 2001 to 2004 (previously Vice-Chairman) Gavyn Davies. He was (and still is) married to Sue Nye; the former assistant to Neil Kinnock and Gordon Brown's "gatekeeper" since 1992. Apparently she is renowned for her loyalty to GB, but I am sure she had no influence over her husband.