Trouble and strife THE FUN FACTORY: A LIFE IN THE BBC by Will Wyatt Aurum Press, L20, pp. 363, ISBN 1854109154 Will Wyatt opens this account of his 34 years at the BBC with the attempts by himself and John Birt to prevent Greg Dyke becoming the 13th director-general of the corporation. Birt wanted one of his own proteges to succeed him, Mark Byford, then director of regional broadcasting, in the hope that Byford wouldn't reverse any of his massive and debilitating structural changes, as Dyke might and indeed did. Wyatt, then deputy to Birt and with no claim to the job, convinced himself that...
