An “exhausted” BBC communications team was forced to reverse its decision to call in Brunswick Group at the height of the Savile crisis because it was not deemed “optically acceptable,” according to transcripts of the Pollard Review.
The transcripts of the interviews with BBC staff, which were published on Friday, shed more light on how parts of the corporation handled the crisis last autumn.
Details of Jimmy Savile's wrongdoings were being reported by ITV amid media questioning whether the ...