Toward the end of Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1980 novel Human Voices, a fictionalized account of her time working at the BBC during World War II, an executive named Jeff Haggard finds himself standing outside Broadcasting House, the organization’s London headquarters, looking up at the stone figures of Prospero and Ariel that have stood above the entrance […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/20/the-british-broadcasting-conundrum-the-bbc-a-century-on-air/