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Monkey

BBC DG gets down with the sisters … and the commuters

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One of the everyday sights that may greet BBC director general George Entwistle on his way into work. Photograph: Matt Crossick/PA

So we know that George Entwistle apparently travelled to work by tube on his first day as BBC director general. But what else has he been up to? Only dropping in on 6 Music DJ Lauren Laverne and the Radio 4 Woman's Hour team, that's what – getting down with the sisters, as well as the commuters. Monkey looked (possibly too hard) for potential Entwistle-related messages in Laverne's Monday playlist, which included Hot Chip's How Do You? and the O'Jays' Back Stabbers; while Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey featured an item on new film Hysteria, about the "role of the electronic massage vibrator as a device to treat Victorian women for hysteria". That's informing, educating and entertaining, right there.

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