BBC Royal Charter

Today the Queen visited BBC Broadcasting House in London to commemorate the 80th anniversary of its Royal Charter. It's a good day to remember Lord Reith, the BBC's founder and first director general.

John Reith's prudish values had a lasting effect on the BBC as his ethos is still in evidence in the 21st century. In private Reith, although married, had a crush on a younger man named Charlie Bowser.