Criticism of Successor
Milne is strongly critical of former BBC Director-General John Birt whom he calls "blue skies Birt". Birt's thesis on television's so-called 'Bias Against Understanding' Milne described as "balls, actually", and said " the most graceless man I have ever known. Ghastly man".
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