My BBC Mole

My highly placed mole* within the BBC passes on this interesting titbit about Tony Palmer and his film about Vaughan Williams. The background is that the Beeboids didn't want to make Palmer's film about Williams (they'd already commissioned another) and that they sent him a rejection letter of the utmost vapidity.

That letter can be read in full in Mary Riddell's Sunday column.

The only slight problem is that the letter mentions "Vision", and was apparently sent some 5 months before "Vision" was actually set up.

It couldn't be that this furore about the letter from the BBC could be, umm, a little light on actuality could it? I mean, no one would do that with a DVD to sell of their documentary, would they?

* Readers might wonder why my mole only tells me things that I could find out by reading blogs or newspapers. Why they should wonder so makes me wonder in my turn: look, we are talking about a BBC journalist here, aren't we? Where else do you expect him to get it from?