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...second time in a month, the independence of the British Broadcasting Corporation was called into question. First the BBC acceded to a government demand that a TV documentary about Northern Ireland be killed (officials later announced that a modified version of the program would air at a future date). This time the furor is over the revelation that MI5, Britain's domestic counterintelligence service, has for decades been a secret participant in decisions to hire, fire and promote BBC employees...
...weekly Observer said that the BBC maintained an MI5 liaison office, now under the guidance of Brigadier Ronnie Stonham, an ex-army intelligence specialist, and that MI5 spied on some BBC staff members, collected information about employee political views, and too often got things wrong. Reporter Isabel Hilton allegedly was refused a job in 1976 because investigators had confused an apolitical group to which she belonged with a leftist organization...
Nearly all these miniatures are the work of Executive Art Director Nigel Holmes, who oversees the creation of TIME's maps, charts and other graphic art. Holmes produced more than 200 illustrations in seven years for Britain's Radio Times, the journal of the BBC, before joining TIME in 1978. He has written a book on the subject, Designing Pictorial Symbols, released last week by Watson-Guptill. (A previous book by Holmes, Designer's Guide to Creating Charts & Diagrams, was published last year.) Holmes' new book contains extensive research into the history of graphic symbols. "It goes back to picture...
DIED. Roy Plomley, 71, cheery host for 40 years of the BBC's weekly Desert Island Discs, a radio program famous for attracting such celebrities as Princess Margaret and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for intimate, homey chats; of a heart attack; in London. Plomley's formula was unvarying: he asked each of his 1,791 guests to select eight recordings, one book and one luxury for an indefinite stay on a desert island. Princess Margaret's picks included Rule Britannia; Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer; and Sixteen Tons sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford...
...BBC, according to Marjorie Heffron of the New Office, was interested in drawing parallels with Oxford University's recent refusal to grant an honorary degree to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she spoke at the university...