Article: BBC No3'S HUSBAND PAID pounds 2M TO MAKE SHOWS .. FOR BBC; Production chief Bennett helps run his media firm.(News)

Byline: ANDREW GREGORY

A HIGH-ranking BBC boss also works for a firm run by her husband that has pocketed pounds 2million of licence-payers' cash making programmes for the Beeb.

Jana Bennett, the corporation's number three, is company secretary of Richard Clemmow's production groups Juniper Communications and Peer 2 Peer Media.

The revelation will fuel further accusations of hypocrisy at the BBC after it forced newsreader George Alagiah to quit as patron of a charity claiming there was a "conflict of interest".

But Bennett, who coins in ...

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