Suave to the End
Mark Lawson on Melvyn Bragg’s end on the South Bank Show
No direct comparison is necessarily intended between Stalin’s regime and that of Peter Fincham, the director of television responsible for ending the presenter’s involvement with ITV, but you suspect that Bragg would not mind very much if viewers drew broad analogies with purges, starvation of central investment and a reluctance to set down a full historical record of what happened.
