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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Monkey

Broken Ariel

BBC pin-ups BBC in-house mag Ariel has jumped on the pull-out wall chart bandwagon. So what's on the wall chart? Prime ministers? Trees? Nope. None other than a "Guide to Who's Who at the top of the BBC". The huge poster contains photos and details of all the top bods at the BBC. All 168 of them. The corporation pin-ups include cartoons of the executive board, including Mark Thompson in a fetching pink master of ceremonies suit. A large bunch of bananas to Ariel for doing what must have been a tricky job and helping out media correspondents everywhere. But with all the impending cuts, Monkey wonders whether Ariel's next wall chart might be somewhat smaller. Back of a fag packet perhaps?

Queen's unlikely Bafta nomination Talking of Ariel, Monkey is still stitching his sides back together after reading on its back page that indie RDF has entered its controversial doc about the Queen - the one where she definitely didn't walk off in a huff - for a Bafta. You did read that right. Which category did they enter it under though? Most creative editing? Documentary most likely to lead to high-profile resignations? Whichever one it was, let's hope Peter Fincham's not on that Bafta judging panel.

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