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Documentary department jobs slashed 

Jason Deans
The Guardian, Thursday November 1, 2001 

The BBC is axing 129 programme-making posts in its factual
and learning department.

The long-anticipated cuts will fall mainly in London, but BBC
production staff in Manchester will also be affected.
Management jobs in Birmingham will also go, but the brunt of
the losses will be in London.

The factual and learning department makes general
documentaries and arts programmes. 

Shows made by the department include Timewatch, Omnibus,
Airport and When Louis Met.... 

BBC factual and learning staff, who have been waiting for
months to hear about their fate, are to be told about the cuts
this morning.

The BBC was originally planning to introduce the cuts in the
summer. But the announcement was delayed because it was
feared news of documentary and arts programme-makers getting
P45s might send the wrong signal to the culture secretary,
Tessa Jowell, while she was deciding whether to give the
go-ahead for the BBC's proposed new digital TV services.

Full article at:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,584689,00.html

Michael Keaney
Mercuria Business School
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