Post by Teddy Bear on Oct 14, 2015 15:47:30 GMT
Par for the BBC course that shows their complete contempt for even trying to appear balanced and impartial.
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Why did BBC honour Denis Healey then snub Howe?
By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail
Barely a month after Jonathan Dimbleby vented his frustration at the lack of Conservative voices on his Radio 4 show Any Questions?, the BBC finds itself in yet another storm over political bias.
Last Wednesday, the Beeb cleared its schedules to put out an obituary of Denis Healey, the former Labour Chancellor who passed away just four days previously, aged 98.
The intimate portrait, called Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had?, was made by the well-regarded political documentary-maker Michael Cockerell.
'Biased': The BBC cleared its schedule to put out an obituary to former Labour Chancellor Denis Healey, left, but there was no programme on his Conservative successor Sir Geoffrey Howe, right
Two days after the programme aired, his immediate successor in Number 11, Sir Geoffrey Howe, died following a suspected heart attack.
But unlike his predecessor, no programme on Sir Geoffrey, who died at his Warwickshire home aged 88, has been scheduled.
The apparent disregard of Howe, who became a key figure implementing Margaret Thatcher’s most controversial economic reforms while serving as her first Chancellor, is likely to provoke yet more accusations at the BBC of Left-wing favouritism.
Explaining its position, a BBC spokesman said yesterday: ‘The death of Lord Howe and his obituary was the lead story on BBC news.’
Cockerell, however, says he would have ample material to do a more elongated tribute.
‘I haven’t been asked to make a Howe obituary,’ he says. ‘But Geoffrey gave me many excellent interviews for my portraits, How to Be Foreign Secretary and How To Be Chancellor, which we could draw on.
‘He was one of the big figures of late 20th-century politics, too. It’s up to the BBC controllers.
‘We were fortunate we already had 20 years of Denis Healey interviews to draw upon for that film.’
As for the Healey film being scheduled on BBC2 against The Great British Bake Off final, Cockerell adds: ‘It was the first movable slot the BBC could find. It’s better than the graveyard slot.’
By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail
Barely a month after Jonathan Dimbleby vented his frustration at the lack of Conservative voices on his Radio 4 show Any Questions?, the BBC finds itself in yet another storm over political bias.
Last Wednesday, the Beeb cleared its schedules to put out an obituary of Denis Healey, the former Labour Chancellor who passed away just four days previously, aged 98.
The intimate portrait, called Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had?, was made by the well-regarded political documentary-maker Michael Cockerell.
'Biased': The BBC cleared its schedule to put out an obituary to former Labour Chancellor Denis Healey, left, but there was no programme on his Conservative successor Sir Geoffrey Howe, right
Two days after the programme aired, his immediate successor in Number 11, Sir Geoffrey Howe, died following a suspected heart attack.
But unlike his predecessor, no programme on Sir Geoffrey, who died at his Warwickshire home aged 88, has been scheduled.
The apparent disregard of Howe, who became a key figure implementing Margaret Thatcher’s most controversial economic reforms while serving as her first Chancellor, is likely to provoke yet more accusations at the BBC of Left-wing favouritism.
Explaining its position, a BBC spokesman said yesterday: ‘The death of Lord Howe and his obituary was the lead story on BBC news.’
Cockerell, however, says he would have ample material to do a more elongated tribute.
‘I haven’t been asked to make a Howe obituary,’ he says. ‘But Geoffrey gave me many excellent interviews for my portraits, How to Be Foreign Secretary and How To Be Chancellor, which we could draw on.
‘He was one of the big figures of late 20th-century politics, too. It’s up to the BBC controllers.
‘We were fortunate we already had 20 years of Denis Healey interviews to draw upon for that film.’
As for the Healey film being scheduled on BBC2 against The Great British Bake Off final, Cockerell adds: ‘It was the first movable slot the BBC could find. It’s better than the graveyard slot.’