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Citi snub for EMI plan

16.11.09
Banking giant Citigroup has rejected attempts by Terra Firma, Guy Hands’s private equity firm, to restructure EMI, the music business it bought for £2.5 billion in 2007 ... more

How the BBC survives

13.10.09
Despite attacks from media rivals and politicians of both parties, Lord Reith's ever-burgeoning institution seems to survive - and even strengthen... more

Fear and loathing inside the BBC

12.10.09
A BBC reporter, asked for his assessment of the quality of the management of the corporation, answers the question with an anecdote. He recalls how he was walking through Television Centre a few days ago and observed Jana Bennett... more

Pick of the Proms - from Bollywood to Barenboim

26.05.09
No other festival offers so much for so little money. Here is a round-up of the concerts not to be missed as part of this year's Proms festival.... more

Lloyds should cut the gimmicks and stick to banking

02.02.09
It's nice to know you're getting value for money when splashing out on a big purchase, so it's interesting to see what Lloyds TSB Insurance buys when it goes shopping... more

Revealed: the peers who claim the most expenses

30.01.09
A series of peers claimed hundreds of pounds each day in expenses without asking ministers any questions and rarely participating in the chamber of the House of Lords... more

Dame Liz Forgan to lead Arts Council

15.12.08
Arts Council England is set to be run by a woman for the first time in its history... more

Frost/Nixon the movie is festival's power opener

16.10.08
The 52nd London Film Festival opened with the world premiere of a movie that started just round the corner from its showing in Leicester Square... more

Gripping account of a titanic clash

16.10.08
RON HOWARD'S film is surprisingly gripping. It turns on the incremental power shifts in the set-up and execution of the 1977 TV interview in which David Frost got the disgraced President Richard Nixon to admit he had let the American people down with his criminal conduct in the Watergate affair.... more

Gripping account of clash in Frost/Nixon

16.10.08
Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon is an intelligently written and superlatively acted piece which addresses fame and ambition.... more

No 10 in a spin as 'image' chief is sidelined

01.09.08
A PR expert drafted into Downing Street to help boost Gordon Brown's image is set to be sidelined after complaints that he is not "political" enough... more

Struggle to get EMI rocking again starts with a few smart recruits

21.04.08
For a record label that is supposedly in crisis, not everything at EMI is going badly... more

Dreams for digital radio turn sour after GCap axes stations

13.02.08
The enforced strategic retreat from digital audio broadcasting by GCap Media may not herald the end of DAB, but it certainly begs many questions about its future... more

Hockney rebel

15.06.07
Outspoken painter David Hockney doesn't regret his outburst against the anti-smoking lobby. The attempt to control all areas of our lives has gone too far he says... more

The man who rewrites history

27.10.06
Peter Morgan is Britain's hottest television, film and stage writer. His brilliance is in imagining the private conversations of the power players. Just don't call it docudrama, he says.... more

Nixon's trial by television

22.08.06
Peter Morgan's enthralling play Frost/Nixon follows President Nixon's extraordinary trial by television and offers fascinating insights on the relationship between politics and the media.... more

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