| BBCONE | Broadcaster whose first director-general was Sir John Reith in 1927 (3,3) |
| CANADA | Its first prime minister was Sir John MacDonald |
| BEES | Nickname of the public service broadcaster founded by Sir John Reith (4) |
| ALANTITCHMARSH | Gardener and broadcaster whose first novel, Only Dad, was published in November 2001 |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian critic, author and broadcaster whose first volume of autobiography is entitled Unreliable |
| BBC | Organisation founded by John Reith (3) |
| VICTORIAANDALBERTMUSEUM | Institution whose first director was Sir Henry Cole |
| FBI | Government agency whose first director was J. Edgar Hoover: Abbr. |
| STASI | Secret police force of East Germany from 1950-90, whose first director was Wilhelm Zaisser (5) |
| MACNEE | Patrick who was Sir Godfrey Tibbett in A View To A Kill (6) |
| ROMMEL | Which general was nicknamed "the Desert Fox"? (6) |
| MARCEL | ____ Theroux, writer and broadcaster whose books include Strange Bodies published in 2013 (6) |
| ONEDGE | Disillusioned general was inwardly nervous |
| DITHER | Act indecisively - the conclusion of Lord Reith, surprisingly (6) |
| ANDREW | Broadcaster whose 2014 debut novel is Head of State (6,4) |
| REITH | John _, first general manager (1922-7) and first director general (1927-1938) of the BBC (5) |
| LOVELL | Bernard, Jodrell Bank Observatory's first director (6) |
| JOHN | Scot who was first Director-general of the BBC, in 1927 (4,5) |
| EDUCATE | The BBC's mission propounded by Lord Reith, its first director-general: to inform, ____ and entertain (7) |
| DAR | Org. whose first president general was first lady Caroline Harrison |
