Inside Story

by Greg Dyke

The eagerly awaited, frequently explosive, and always entertaining memoirs of the recent Director-General of the BBC, whose departure in January 2004 caused a huge popular outcry in Britain.

Genres: Biography

352 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2004

Reviews

[Bruce Everett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Somewhat self-indulgent piece by someone who clearly has been keen to be heard, whatever his opinion, all his life. It’s two books really. Lots of juicy, albeit one sided intel on the corrupt torrid mess of Tony Blair & Alistair Campbell taking UK to war unnecessarily in the Middle East. The other, a fairly straightforward autobiographical account of a man working his way up the media industry despite a middling intellect (it seems). Myself I found the political side far too repetitive and determined to persuade, rather than inform. The autobiography bit was light enough and fun to observe with the benefit of c2020 hindsight - and absolute respect to GD for clearly making such positive changes to the BBC.

[Krissie Hutton · Rating 4 out of 5]

An autobiography from Greg Dyke, Director General of the BBC until 2004. I admire Dyke for being forthright and for sticking up for his staff, and for being willing to make controversial changes at the BBC in the interest of strengthening the organisation to enable it to achieve its mission, which he better defined. His leadership talent is so well-evidence by his staff taking to the streets on the day he was effectively fired from the BBC. These points shine through plenty of book content I did not find interesting (e.g. sports, mergers in broadcasting organisations).