Rescued from the BBC archives is this little gem: Roger Parry's final TV report for the Beeb. Parry, tipped as a possible successor to Sir Michael Lyons as chair of the BBC Trust, filed this short take on the Notting Hill carnival in 1984, shortly before he left to become a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Former BBC colleagues have been teasing Parry with the footage, in which the media entrepreneur can be heard – but not seen, sadly – describing the carnival over footage of the festivities (smiling schoolchildren – check; policeman dancing awkwardly with locals – check). The YouGov chairman recalls: "I did the [carnival] three years running. That year we went back to the roof of the same pub to film and found the marks from the tripod were still there. The cameraman looked at me and said: 'We've done this once too often haven't we?'" Parry embarked on a successful business career shortly after, but could yet return to the BBC in triumph. In the meantime, check out the police band in his film – full marks for trying, boys, but zero points for musicality.
