The trouble is that the BBC in recent years has throttled itself with its own bureaucracy – which saps the energy of its staff and demoralises them. It is over managed and badly managed so that no one knows how or where decisions are taken. The upshot is a crazy system where George as Head of Television, when told of the Savile suspicions, ends up saying that he does not want to show ”undue interest“ in something that clearly radically affects his programming.