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The sole formal complaint flagged in the BBC review was made by an employee to a manager in 2007, after Brand allegedly urinated into a cup and bottle on two occasions while recording his Radio 2 ...
The review was carried out by Peter Johnston, BBC director of editorial complaints and reviews, and focused on Brand’s behaviour on BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 between 2006 and 2008.
Brand issued an apology for making the calls [9] but stated it was "funny" during his last radio show, before the Mail had printed the story. [4] Ofcom, the telecommunications regulator, announced its own investigation. [10] On 28 October, the BBC said that it had received 4,700 complaints, [11] after the calls became international news.
The BBC has apologised to staff as part of a review into the conduct of Russell Brand during his time with the broadcaster. The internal review was ordered after a joint investigation by The Times ...
The Japanese embassy in London wrote a letter of complaint to the BBC about the content of its quiz show after being alerted to the offensive content when viewers in Japan contacted diplomatic staff. [142] Yamaguchi's daughter also made known how upset she was as a result of the comments broadcast on the BBC. [143]
Stop Messing About was a BBC radio series broadcast in 1969 and 1970. Forced by circumstance into being a follow-up to Round the Horne, it retained a number of key talents from the previous show, with Kenneth Williams as the new show's main star. It was rewritten for the stage in 2009.
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The failure of the attempt to transfer the show to television, plus the impact on BBC Management of the cast defecting to ITV (and, in effect, using BBC Radio to promote a TV series on the rival ITV channel), had a disastrous effect on what had, up until then, been a very successful radio show: only a handful of further radio episodes would be ...