Controller’s glittering career cut short

UNTIL the current furore broke, Lesley Douglas’s tenure as BBC Radio 2 controller had been marked with success.

Taking up the post in January 2004, the station received the prestigious Sony UK Radio Station of The Year the following year, and the equivalent accolade at the Music Week Awards in 2006 and 2007.

After her resignation, BBC director-general Mark Thompson described her as being one of the station’s “most successful, most trustworthy” controllers.