Today’s Evening Standard carried a large tribute section to Alexander Walker today.
When I got home this evening, I flicked around looking for something to watch and stumbled upon Alex on the BBC Parliament channel. They were showing coverage of the Culture Media and Sport committee from Tuesday 17 June at which Alexander Walker was one of the three witnesses.
What he spoke about was very eloquent, and his points well made. You couldn’t really find fault in anything he said. I don’t know how well or not he was at the time, but as all his obituaries have said, he was perfectly turned out, and could speak at length and knowledgably.
The other witnesses were easyJet, and more to the point easyCinema’s Stelios Haji-Ioannou. His new cinema in Milton Keynes is trying to work on a yield management system similar to his airline, internet caf�s and car hire businesses, but the studios are unwilling to supply him with first run films on that basis.
Finally there was Tessa Jowell who was quite defensive in her answers, as you’d expect her to be.
I thought that for the most part, the committee seemed very knowledgable and asked some good questions. I look forward to their report.