Radio 2 boss quits over prank row
Updated on 30 October 2008
The boss who hired Russell Brand, Lesley Douglas, becomes the second casualty of the phone call scandal, as the director general of the BBC is ordered to apologise.
Russell Brand has already quit, and his co-presenter Jonathan Ross has been suspended until January next year without pay.
The BBC Trust itself has now ordered an on air apology for the pre-recorded radio segment which featured lewd phone calls to the veteran actor Andrew Sachs.
The corporation has ordered a complete review of editorial procedures which it condemns as "inadequate", and has called the prank "an abuse of the privilege given to the BBC" that has fallen "way short of the public's expectations."
Although only two people complained at the time, that has now risen to more than 30,000 after a tabloid campaign.
