Paul Barnes

Paul Barnes had been dreading the Covid swab test

Paul Barnes had been dreading the Covid swab test

For some weeks now melancholy words have been coming my way from the BBC. Now some of them have broken into to print, the pages of the EDP no less. It’s the BBC which is the source of these unhappy messages. I say the BBC but it would be more accurate to refer to “the BBC, or what’s left of it”. The steps of The Forum (the Beeb’s home in Norwich for those who didn’t already know) have been shaking to the departing footsteps of those people whose faces and voices have been making the BBC what it once was.

For some weeks now melancholy words have been coming my way from the BBC. Now some of them have broken into to print, the pages of the EDP no less. It’s the BBC which is the source of these unhappy messages. I say the BBC but it would be more accurate to refer to “the BBC, or what’s left of it”. The steps of The Forum (the Beeb’s home in Norwich for those who didn’t already know) have been shaking to the departing footsteps of those people whose faces and voices have been making the BBC what it once was.

A library of books behind a face staring into a laptop camera has become a sign of the times. Paul Barnes wonders just how staged those backgrounds are

A library of books behind a face staring into a laptop camera has become a sign of the times. Paul Barnes wonders just how staged those backgrounds are

A library of books behind a face staring into a laptop camera has become a sign of the times. Paul Barnes wonders just how staged those backgrounds are

A library of books behind a face staring into a laptop camera has become a sign of the times. Paul Barnes wonders just how staged those backgrounds are

Paul Barnes had a heart attack in March. Here he describes what happened to him

Paul Barnes had a heart attack in March. Here he describes what happened to him