Bennett-Jones

Credit where due: a BBC employee has an epiphany about the Taleban in Pakistan and his editor allows it through Inset text from Owen Bennett-Jones:

OPEN THREAD 2009

BBC reporter, O.Bennett-Jones, in Pershawar scene of the latest Islamic jihad atrocity, has: "Tide turns against the Taliban"

OPEN THREAD 2009

Well, I only heard the other day from those 'Bennett-Jones' girls that he asked them if you would be there, and they said 'yes,' just because they wanted him to make their party complete; they took three men and three girls.

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However, Bennett-Jones admits he's not infallible, laughing about how Michael MacIntyre reminded him after he became famous that he had been a runner at Tiger and lobbied for a break.

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Bennett-Jones reveals that he talked to Endemol a decade ago about a deal.

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Brought up in Liverpool, where writers such as Willy Russell awakened his love of showbiz, Bennett-Jones set aside his planned legal career while he was at Cambridge University and ended up touring with the Footlights.

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In his farewell speech to Tiger Aspect staff, Bennett-Jones reinforced the point, saying his children "keep reminding me that I am now an old git and it is time to move on".

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As they have done at the top end of the BBC, which has been a cause of great consternation, Bennett-Jones notes wryly.

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"When I set out I sought to emulate her," Bennett-Jones recalls.

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Along the way Bennett-Jones played his part in the sector's battles to secure independent commissioning quotas from the BBC and ITV, and to hold on to more of the rights to their shows.

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