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[The Guardian] Letter: Alan Yentob obituary
« on: June 02, 2025, 07:00:18 AM »
Letter: Alan Yentob obituary

Alan Yentob did another great service to the BBC and to British culture by giving the final imprimatur to the siting of Martin Jennings’s statue of George Orwell, promoted by my late husband, Ben Whitaker, outside the BBC HQ, and by choosing the best quotation to be inscribed beside it: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

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