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Jan Younghusband will leave a great legacy for the BBC to build on
Eighteen leading figures in the arts and broadcasting write to defend the record of the BBC’s head of music commissioning, who is leaving the role later this year
Jan Younghusband, the BBC’s head of music commissioning, who will leave the role later this year. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
Jan Younghusband, the BBC’s head of music commissioning, who will leave the role later this year. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
Letters
Fri 21 May 2021 11.52 EDT
Last modified on Fri 21 May 2021 12.48 EDT
We feel strongly that your article (BBC showing ‘negativity verging on hostility’ to classical documentaries, 14 May) provides a wholly inaccurate and unbalanced view of Jan Younghusband’s role as the BBC’s head of music commissioning.
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BBC showing ânegativity verging on hostilityâ to classical documentaries
Exclusive: classical music film-makers Sir Humphrey Burton, Tony Palmer and Barrie Gavin say output lacks volume and quality
A 1976 edition of Omnibus in which Andre Previn discussed William Waltonâs First Symphony with Humphrey Burton. Photograph: Keystone Press/Alamy
A 1976 edition of Omnibus in which Andre Previn discussed William Waltonâs First Symphony with Humphrey Burton. Photograph: Keystone Press/Alamy
Thu 13 May 2021 19.01 EDT
The BBC is failing audiences by offering classical music documentaries that lack revelation and risk, if they are made at all, according to three of the industryâs foremost film-makers.