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Article: The BBC Trust must do more to prove it's not just one big pussycat
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2008
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ON BROADCASTING
No one can fault the energy level of the BBC Trust. Hardly a week
goes by without the body that replaced the Governors coming out with
weighty pronouncements.
The latest is the corporation's Statement of Programme Policy,
trumpeting such innovative and distinctive content as the marking of
the 150th anniversary of Darwin's On The Origin Of Species, getting
Simon Schama to have a look at American history in the run-up to the
US Presidential elections or coming up with a new adaptation of
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.
Worthy, decent - exactly the sort of programmes that the BBC
should be doing - but perhaps a little light on the innovation side.
A few days earlier there was ...