BBC appoints insider as director general

An insider, Tim Davie, is to take over as the new director general of the BBC — culturally, socially and politically one of the most important organisations in the UK.

He will succeed the peer, Tony Hall, with effect from September.

Davie, 53, head of BBC Studios, which was previously known as BBC Worldwide, was educated at Whitgift School in Croydon, and studied English at Selwyn College, Cambridge, before joining Procter & Gamble as a trainee in 1991.

The appointment is important for India because the BBC no longer sends patrician white Englishman like Mark Tully at great expense to take up residence in the country but prefers to employ local recruits speaking English in a variety of authentic regional accents.

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