The BBC's director-general talks to Neil Midgley about the licence fee, his critics in the media - and why he'll continue to fly business class. Mark Thompson defended the BBC's role in the MacTaggart lecture Photo: Paul Grover Seldom has strong leadership been so crucial at the BBC. With a workforce on the verge of strikes over proposed pension cuts, an increasingly punchy BBC Trust as regulator, and a new government threatening deep cuts to the licence fee, director-general Mark Thompson faces...
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