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In 1969, two hundred members of the BBC staff protested to the director general at changes which would ‘ emasculate ’ Radio 3, while managing director of radio Ian Trethowan described the station in a memorandum as " a private playground for elitists to indulge in cerebral masturbation ".
Margaret Thatcher was said to have told the BBC Director General, Sir Iain Trethowan, soon after she became Conservative Party leader that she considered World in Action to consist of " just a lot of Trotskyists.
Sir Ian Trethowan ( 20 October 1922 – 12 December 1990 ) was a British journalist, radio and television broadcaster and administrator who eventually became director-general of the BBC.
Trethowan was a journalist and former parliamentary lobby correspondent, who would go on to become director-general of the BBC from 1 October 1977 to 31 July 1982, having previously been managing director of BBC network radio from 1970 to 1976.
In 1979, when Trethowan was director-general, the BBC governors scuppered a plan to broadcast Michael Parkinson's chat show three nights a week, probably because the idea seemed too populist.
A close friend of the former Tory prime minister Sir Edward Heath, and an exponent of the same kind of one-nation Conservatism, Trethowan has been criticised in recent years by some on the left, especially for his support for the MI5 " vetting " of BBC employees which has often been seen as a means of weeding out leftists in the corporation.
In 1994, when announcing her plans to reduce the dominance of received pronunciation and include more regional accents on Radio 3 and Radio 4, Liz Forgan ( who then held Ian Trethowan's old post as managing director of BBC network radio ) said that she wanted to move away from the attitude expressed by Trethowan when he heard a Birmingham accent on BBC radio and said " What is that sound doing on the BBC?
" These remarks may be apocryphal, although of all BBC directors-general since 1960, Trethowan is probably the one most likely to have held such views.
Trethowan told the press at the time that nobody from the government had seen the film or put pressure on the BBC but in fact he had met the heads of MI5 and MI6, showed the agencies a preview tape of the programme and invited them to suggest cuts to it.
In December 2011 it was revealed that then BBC Director General Sir Ian Trethowan had met with the heads of MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service about an episode of Panorama dealing with the security services.
The latter suggested cuts to the programme and Trethowan asked the head of BBC News to reduce the programme to half its length.

Trethowan and was
She unsuccessfully contested the seat of East Melville at the 1983 election against sitting Liberal Party member Antony Trethowan, but was more successful in 1986 when she won the seat of Subiaco following the retirement of long-serving Liberal-turned-independent Dr Tom Dadour.
Milne was one of the so-called " Goldie Boys ", a group of producers and presenters, which included Huw Wheldon, Robin Day, David Frost, Cliff Michelmore, Ian Trethowan and Richard Dimbleby.
Ian Trethowan was educated at the independent Christ's Hospital school near Horsham in West Sussex and did not attend a university.
From 1987 until his death from motor neurone disease, Trethowan was chairman of Thames Television.
Trethowan was knighted in 1980.
In December 2011 when 30-year-old British government papers were released, it was revealed that as director-general Trethowan personally intervened in an attempt to censor a 1981 edition of the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Panorama about Britain's intelligence agencies.

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During this time, the court did decide several important cases, including Attorney-General ( New South Wales ) v Trethowan ( 1931 ), which considered Premier of New South Wales Jack Lang's attempt to abolish the New South Wales Legislative Council, and the First State Garnishee case ( 1932 ), which upheld federal legislation compelling the Lang government to repay its loans.

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Some authors compare morbid jealousy to a delusional state ( e. g. Enoch & Trethowan, 1979 ).
* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article by Brian Wenham, ‘ Trethowan, Sir ( James ) Ian Raley ( 1922 – 1990 )’, accessed 29 May 2007.
In Alfred and the Great White Horse of Wiltshire ( 1939 ), the Downside Abbey monk Dom Illtyd Trethowan debunked the suggested connection of the White Horse with Alfred and the Battle of Ethandune.
* The Philosophy of St Bonaventure, translated by Illtyd Trethowan and F. J. Sheed ( London: Sheed and Ward, 1940 )

moved and BBC
The BBC News Channel moved from the Studio N8 set ( now home to BBC World News ) to what was the home of the national news in Studio N6, allowing the Channel to share its set with the BBC News at One and the BBC News at Ten – with other bulletins moving to studio TC7.
Bulletins on BBC One moved into a new set in January 2003 although retained the previous ivory Lambie-Nairn titles until February 2004.
In 2000, the Solid Steel show moved to BBC London.
Anderson moved to the BBC in 1996 and the show's name changed to Clive Anderson All Talk and was aired on BBC One.
He moved in to broadcasting, working at the BBC, firstly working as a pundit on Match of the Day before he went on to present the flagship show.
In 1960 he made his first radio commentary in the United Kingdom at the BBC, after which he moved into television.
Repeats of the British series moved to BBC America in April 2006 ; however, the network has not shown any episodes taped before 1994.
After two series of The Frost Report on the BBC, totalling 26 half-hour episodes, Frost moved to ITV after helping to set up London Weekend Television.
Following rehearsals, production moved to BBC Television Centre where the remaining scenes were recorded in two blocks ; the first between 21 May 1979 and 22 May 1979 and second between 3 June 1979 and 5 June 1979.
The ATV operations moved to Elstree and Borehamwood ( now BBC studios ) and the BBC News department, which was the only unit remaining at " Ally Pally " after BBC Television Centre was opened in the 1950s, moved to White City, west London in September 1969.
Caesar then went on to get his first " paid gig " on the Rod Lucas Show on BBC Radio Kent and shortly afterwards they both moved to the newly created Invicta Radio and, in a similar manner to BBC Radio 1 presenter Steve Wright, copied a style from American DJ Rick Dees that has subsequently become known worldwide as the ' Zoo Format '.
The show first aired on CBBC on BBC One and was a children's sitcom based on the lives of the group who had moved to Miami in search of fame in America.
When the BBC lost Neighbours to Channel 5 in January 2008, it moved into the Australian soap's old slot of 1: 45pm.
After the closure of Pebble Mill, BBC Birmingham moved to a much smaller production base in Birmingham City Centre which had no studio space for the show.
In light of this, the show moved to the new BBC Drama Village development in Selly Oak, Birmingham, with the transition between locations achieved on screen by an explosion destroying the Riverside practice in March 2005 for the fifth anniversary of the series and the surgery moving to a new specially constructed set, The Mill Health Centre, named after the series ' original production home.

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After they had left, some of the people moved around, to find more comfortable places to sit.
Before the Juniors entered the ring the Steward announced that after all Juniors had moved their dogs around the ring and set them up, they could relax with their dogs.
Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.
So: Means edged around on the north side of her, Jones moved in from the south.
And from that the stock moved right on up until it was trading Thursday morning at around $22 a share.
Brooding about future wars, the Field Marshal has this to say: `` The Asian fighting man is at least equally brave ( as the white ), usually more careless of death, less encumbered by mental doubts, less troubled by humanitarian sentiment, and not so moved by slaughter and mutilation around him.
Now they moved, rubbing their flesh alive again, disdaining the gloom they saw in the faces around them.
Together with Pausanias, he later moved to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, who was recruiting playwrights ; it is here that he probably died around 401 BC.
` Abdu ' l-Bahá was able to arrange for houses to be rented for the family, the family later moved to the Mansion of Bahjí around 1879 when an epidemic caused the inhabitants to flee.
The gleaming expanse of ice is similar to the Arctic, with wind-driven pack ice and ridges up to 15 m. Offshore of the landfast ice, the ice remains very dynamic all year, and it is relatively easily moved around by winds and therefore forms pack ice, made up of large piles and ridges pushed against the landfast ice and shores.
An alliance of pro free-trade Conservatives ( the " Peelites "), Radicals, and Whigs carried repeal, and the Conservative Party split: the Peelites moved towards the Whigs, while a " new " Conservative Party formed around the protectionists, led by Disraeli, Bentinck, and Lord Stanley ( later Lord Derby ).
Similarly, frets on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut and tied to the neck so that they could be moved around by the player at will ( as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the microtonal playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian music ).
The main Iranian contributor to Brahui vocabulary, Balochi, is a Northwestern Iranian language, and moved to the area from the west only around 1000 AD.
After graduating from high school in 1963, he moved to Europe, travelling around Paris and Liège, where he formed bands with local musicians and recorded some singles mainly in English and in French but also in Turkish.
In around 500 BCE, after the Zhou state weakened and China moved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the classic period of Chinese philosophy began ( it is an interesting fact that this date nearly coincides with the emergence of the first Greek philosophers ).
The dice are moved clockwise around the table for the next player to become shooter.
Boiorix, who may have a Celtic name if not a Celticized Germanic name, was king of the Cimbri after they moved away for their ancestral home of northern Jutland ; Boiorix and his tribe lived around Celtic peoples during his era as J.
He moved around northern France and painted from hotels in Rouen, Paris, Le Havre and Dieppe.
The Lynch family often moved around according to where the USDA assigned Donald.
It is very popular in applications where objects are moved around using suction cups and vacuum lines.
After his adoptive mother's death when he was 5, his father moved around the country seeking work.
He was international Athlete after retirement he just moved to famous dacoit. Paan Singh Tomar was only docoit who became so famous that government had to use around 10000 forces from BSF, CRPF and state police.
EPLF fighters then moved into position around Keren, Eritrea's second-largest city.
Others report that the same fort was attacked by the infidels and then was moved to the place where it is now situated, and the city gathered around it.
Up to 1913, most American film production was still carried out around New York, but because of the monopoly of Thomas Edison's film patents, many filmmakers had moved to Southern California, hoping to escape the litany of lawsuits that the Edison Company had been bringing to protect its monopoly.

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