David Attenborough, one of the BBC's longest-standing presenters, has described the big salaries of senior management as a "huge embarrassment" and said it would
be a "catastrophe" if the corporation's funding was cut. Attenborough spoke out in the wake of the latest controversy around executive pay at the BBC, where 60 million pounds was paid to outgoing
executives over an eight-year period, including more than one million pounds to the former deputy director general Mark Byford.
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