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Morale at the BBC, the world's best-known public-service broadcaster, has been dropping for most of the past decade. A "moaning culture," in the words of Greg Dyke, the British Broadcasting Corp.'s new director-general, has pervaded the Beeb in recent years, with staff members complaining about an overweening bureaucracy that stifles creativity. Last month it appeared that Dyke had taken the keening to heart. He announced a shake-up of the 23,000-employee organization in which hundreds of management jobs will be axed and $1.5 billion in savings channeled into programming over the next five...
NAME: B ("THE BEEB") BC AGE: 76 OCCUPATION: Exporting quality programming to America BEST PUNCH: BBC deejay John Peel denies ban, saying, "People claim their records have been banned, when in fact they are not being played because they are crap...
...caves and caverns of rock 'n' roll to the sedate duchy of the British Broadcasting Corp., whose listeners were more used to hearing poetry readings, gardening tips and news in Welsh than raucous cover versions of Little Richard and Little Eva. This odd couple, the Beatles and Auntie Beeb, hit it off, as the lads gaily bantered between numbers. When asked, "Do you ever get tired of being Beatles?" the four break into yawns of boredom. George Harrison explains that to avoid mob scenes, the guys go to restaurants "where the people there are so snobby they're the type...
...group were built on solid rock. Memory, sentiment, tragedy and official cultural status make it easy to forget that the Beatles were a scruffy bunch of working-class rock brats. It was a great part of their strength and some of their glory. Although The Beatles at the Beeb includes a version of the lamentable 'Til There Was You, there is also an esoteric tune titled I Just Don't Understand, which turns out to have been introduced in an Ann-Margret movie (take that, cultural anthropologists) and does not seem completely worthy of the obscurity into which...
...reminder, however: because of thorny copyright problems, the material on The Beatles at the Beeb will probably never make it to record. This may not be an insurmountable problem in an age of technological marvels. As Bruce Springsteen used to tell listeners at home when he did his own radio shows: "Roll them tapes...