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Monkey

Doctors orders: BBC tries laughing as a cure for charter review woes

W1A
No laughing matter? BBC’s latest health and wellbeing offer sounds like a tribute to W1A. Photograph: Jack Barnes/BBC/Jack Barnes

Monkey will be trying to arrange some meetings at BBC’s London HQ New Broadcasting House on 1 July. Why? To attend its staff Health and Wellbeing festival of course. On offer are mini-manicures, desk massages, food stalls in the piazza, yoga and laughter therapy. Apparently the laughter therapy sessions are booking up fast. Though of course equal mirth could be mined from watching BBC satire W1A, which is where the idea sounds like it came from. Monkey wonders if director general Tony Hall has signed up for the laughter therapy. He might need some as charter review is shaping up to be no laughing matter.

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