John Tusa

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Culture

New world order

12 March 2007

John Tusa, leader of the Tory arts task force, sets out his seven-point challenge for Gordon Brown

Diary - John Tusa

26 May 2003

What do you need to be successful in one of those top arts jobs? Bags of imagination and big balls. That makes writing the spec for the next top arts job pretty easy - but is it PC?

Politics

Last month at Banff, in the Canadian Rockies, the BBC's director of television, Mark Thompson, suggested that the corporation might abandon mixed television schedules and hive off serious programming to "genre-based" channels. He justified this move by arguing that most viewers considered that "elite culture" appealed only to a diminishing minority. Thompson called those who he thought might object to the new strategy "Britain's cultural police". The "Kojak" of these cultural policemen, he suggested, was John Tusa, formerly a presenter of Newsnight and currently running London's Barbican arts centre. Now, Tusa replies

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