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[Jan Klimkowski]

As an aside, the stuff below is a complete disgrace.

So, there's a one time Tory Cabinet Minister (Patten) as BBC Chair, and a recent Labour Cabinet Minister & Blairite tool (Purnell) as BBC Director of Strategy.

There's your Gatekeepers.

James Purnell to rejoin BBC

Former culture secretary to become director of strategy and digital, as Helen Boaden is confirmed as radio chief

Tara Conlan
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 14 February 2013 09.33 GMT
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Former Labour culture secretary James Purnell is returning to the BBC to work for incoming director general Lord Hall in a new role as director of strategy and digital.

In a series of senior appointments announced on Thursday ahead of Hall's arrival on 2 April, the BBC confirmed that director of news Helen Boaden will take the role of director of radio (formerly audio and music). MediaGuardian revealed on Friday that Hall had offered Boaden the job.

Tim Davie, acting director general and former audio and music director, is rewarded for steadying the BBC corporate ship following the Savile scandal with an expanded role as director of global as well as chief executive of BBC Worldwide.

Purnell will earn £295,000 in his new role and will start at the BBC on 20 March. Davie will begin his new job on 2 April and Boaden on 15 April.

Hall said of Davie's new global role in an email to staff on Thursday morning: "He will be responsible for developing the BBC's global brand and editorial strategy. Specifically, he will lead our efforts to offer a joined-up BBC across markets and genres around the world."

The moves are part of Hall's assembling of a new top executive team before he arrives at the corporation.

Purnell left politics in 2010 and is currently a senior producer at production company Rare Day and an adviser at Boston Consulting Group.

He previously worked for the BBC from 1995 to 1997 under former director general John Birt as head of corporate planning.

Purnell's new role will encompass not only the BBC's strategy in the runup to charter renewal but also overseeing the strategy, public affairs, digital, audience, marketing and communications divisions.

In November, during the height of the chaos at the BBC due to the fallout from the Jimmy Savile scandal, he wrote a piece in the Financial Times arguing that the corporation should learn from the Birt era.