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Greg Dyke: Inside Story - Greg Dyke

Description: ISBN 0007193645 / Genre: Biography

Newest Review: ... readable. At the age of thirty even Dyke wouldn't have thought of himself as a future Director General of the BBC. He'd been ... more

... written off as a failure at school and now he was unemployed. His break came when he got a job as a current affairs researcher at London Weekend Television. Since then he's been associated with most of the major television companies and he's made a multi-million-pound fortune out of it. He was the man who introduced Roland Rat to the failing TV-AM. Roland was once described as the only rat to save a sinking ship. Money's obviously very important to Mr Dyke. It's a theme that runs right through the book from quoti...more

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Greg Dyke: Inside Story - Greg Dyke: Rat saves sinking ship! (1324 words)
by SueMagee - written on 24/01/05 (Very useful, 85 readings)
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One morning in May 2003 a BBC reporter, Andrew Gilligan, spoke on-air to John Humphys, presenter of Radio 4's "Today" programme. They discussed claims the government made before the invasion of Iraq about weapons of mass destruction and in particular the suggestion that WMD could be ready for use in 45 minutes. Gilligan went on to say that the dossier covering what the government thought Iraq was up to had originally been a rather tame affair and a source had told him that Downing Street had ordered it to be "sexed up". These words were to result in the suicide of Dr David Kelly, the Hutton report and finally the resignation of Greg Dyke, the author ...

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