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John Tusa

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John Tusa was formerly managing director of the BBC World Service and the Barbican Arts Centre. He is now chair of the Clore Leadership Programme. His latest book is Pain in the Arts.

July 2018

  • Jessica Mann

    Jessica Mann obituary

    Crime novelist and broadcaster who appeared on Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz and TV’s Question Time

July 2014

  • Tony Hall

    Media blog
    double quotation markBBC must be freed up to display creativity if it is to win a new charter

    John Tusa
  • Bolshoi dancers at the Royal Opera House

    double quotation markHere's what a wise arts policy might look like

    John Tusa

November 2011

  • Sir John Tusa

    Sir John Tusa: finding a necessary language for the arts

    If the arts are to free themselves to do what they do best and to command success, they must reclaim their own voice

December 2008

  • double quotation markA farewell to Ed

    John Tusa

    John Tusa: Like many I am baffled by Ed Stourton's dismissal from the Today programme, only made worse by the way the BBC handled it

July 2008

  • Last of the great bureau chiefs

    When Charles Wheeler broadcast, there were no hysterics, no histrionics, no whipping up drama, no matter what scene he was reporting. By John Tusa

May 2008

  • Art & design blog
    Art in public spaces should be decided by the people

    Communication between commissioners and the public will make for better art, and the Ebbsfleet project will benefit from it

August 2007

  • A Cultural Olympiad? Great idea - now give us the money

    The arts column: With just five years to go, with a year before London 2012 'owns' the Olympic project, the arts world is still waiting for the Cultural Olympiad to be funded.

March 2007

  • Blair's lips may say 'culture' ... but his heart is not in art

    Tony Blair's speech at Tate Modern should have had the arts world dancing in the auditoriums. So why has the response been so grudging, asks John Tusa.

February 2007

  • The new ABC of the arts

  • double quotation markHow the BBC can flourish

    John Tusa

December 2006

  • Art & design blog
    Funding the arts is about more than just ownership

  • Art & design blog
    double quotation markDon't suffer for your art

    John Tusa

November 2006

  • Music blog
    Open up your ears to the thrill of the new

  • Art & design blog
    Britain's best hang?

September 2006

  • Champion of music, cleaner of floors

    John Tusa: The death of John Drummond, former head of Radio 3 and the director of the Edinburgh International Festival, at the age of 71 was announced yesterday. He is remembered here by his friend and former colleague.

December 2005

  • double quotation markArt matters

    John Tusa

    Yes, society needs the arts to grow and thrive - but there's a much more important reason to fund them, says John Tusa.

October 2005

  • How money makes the World Service go round

    The axing of 10 language services to fund one Arabic TV service paints a bleak picture for the rest of the BBC's foreign radio output, John Tusa reports.

July 2004

  • Back to the old country

    On Janacek's 150th birthday, John Tusa visited the composer's favourite forests and pubs - and found more than he bargained for.

January 2004

  • double quotation mark'Gavyn Davies and Greg Dyke were right to go and go quickly'

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    John Tusa: It is of course a grossly unfair report.
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