Tim Davie and Richard Sharp have lost the BBC dressing room
Staff at the broadcaster hold its director-general and chairman in contempt.
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William Turvill
William Turvill is the New Statesman's media correspondent and Press Gazette associate editor (interviews and investigations).
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