Trump should fear the BBC – these are the people who made Noel's House Party | Emma Brockes

Filed by Dirk Danger

The public broadcaster has often spoken truth to power, and can more than match the president’s prized unpredictabilityFor the greatest account of the BBC’s finest hour, one must turn to Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel, Human Voices, written in 1980 and set 40 years earlier, at the corporation’s Portland Place wartime HQ. Flanked by sandbags and infused with a smell of cooking “from the deep hold that suggested more strongly than ever a cruise on the Queen Mary”, the organisation that Fitzgerald des