The Radio 4 Today presenter steps down after 32 years, but colleagues still struggle to define him
On the morning of what would transpire to be his last day as
BBC director-general, George Entwistle found himself in the Radio 4 Today studio facing John Humphrys.
The BBC was already engulfed by the unfolding Jimmy Savile scandal. Now, a Newsnight report had led to Tory peer Lord McAlpine being wrongly implicated in a child sexual abuse case.