I wanted to let you know about the new issue of Spectator Life that’s out today – free with the latest issue of the Spectator. It’s my first issue in charge as editor and I’m pleased to say that one of our stories – a profile of Alan Yentob by ex-Newsnight producer Meirion Jones – has made it on to the front page of today’s Sun. It’s a great read. The Sun has splashed on the allegation that Yentob branded Meirion and his fellow producer Liz MacKean ‘traitors to the BBC’ after they publicly complained about the Beeb’s decision to pull the film they’d made exposing Jimmy Savile as a paedophile a year before he died. Yentob strongly denies saying this, but Jones’s source – a BBC colleague – claims to have heard it directly from Yentob’s mouth and sent an email to the Director General, which Jones has a copy of, complaining about Yentob’s remark.
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