somewhere in the B.B.C.
George Entwistle, director general of the B.B.C. waits for Peter Rippon programme editor who stopped the Newsnight broadcast into Jimmy Savile.
GE: Rippon, sorry to drag you away from the fun old boy.
PR: That’s all right sir.
GE: Savile’s not going very well you know.
PR: Oh my god
GE: Yes, two down and the ball’s in the enemy court.
GE: Enquiries a psychological thing Rippon, like a game of football
PR: Yes sir.
GE: You know how in a game of football 10 men often play better than 11.
PE: Yes sir
GE: Rippon, we’re asking you to be that one man.
PR: Sir.
GE: Rippon, I want you to lay down your career. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It’ll raise the whole tone of the B.B.C.
GE: Get in your car Rippon, pop over to the select committee, take a shufty, don’t come back.
PR: Right you are sir.
GE: Goodbye Rippon, god I wish I was going too.
PE: Goodbye sir, or is it au revoir?
GE: No Rippon.