With Egon Zehnder consultant Dom Loehnis having updated the BBC Trust last Wednesday on the director general job spec, the race is hotting up. So Monkey was interested to hear about a dinner in January attended by the four main BBC internal candidates. Vision director George Entwistle, BBC News boss Helen Boaden, chief operating officer Caroline Thomson and BBC Audio & Music chief Tim Davie all happened to be having dinner just after the Guardian revealed that Mark Thompson had told friends he would be leaving within a year. Sources say it was nothing like Gordon Brown and Tony Blair's infamous Granita pact dinner, but Monkey would love to have been a fly on the wall. And who sat at the head of the table, Monkey wonders?
