Joanna Trollope says BBC's overpaid managers are starving the arts

Announcing that she will chair the corporation’s short story award, novelist says ‘a great weight of money’ has gone to the wrong people

High-earning BBC top brass have come under fire from writer Joanna Trollope for paying themselves money that should be invested in its arts coverage and staff. The bestselling author voiced her criticism as it was announced she will chair the panel of judges for the BBC national short story award.

Trollope, who took the judging role because she is “a great supporter of the BBC”, told the Guardian: “I think the BBC has not been terribly well run, it seems to me a great weight of money has gone to top management that should have gone to people lower down the scale.”

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