I'm quitting panel show after 46 years over BBC box-ticking ‘nannyism'
Daily Express|January 10, 2022
NIGEL Rees, creator, and presenter of Radio 4 panel show Quote… Unquote says he quit because tick-box “nannyism” at the BBC finally got too much.
Emily Braeger
I'm quitting panel show after 46 years over BBC box-ticking ‘nannyism'

The 77-year-old, who hosted the show for 46 years, wrote in his Quote… Unquote newsletter: “It had reached crunch point.

“I don’t want to sound like an ‘anti-woke’ backbench Tory MP [which I am far from being], but... ‘cultural issues’ were among the several factors that contributed to my pulling the plug.”

Rees said it is a relief to be free from “weird” arguments, like fighting to get Charlotte Green, 65, the regular reader of the quotations to deliver a line in a Yorkshire accent.

This story is from the January 10, 2022 edition of Daily Express.

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