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Featuring prominent television industry voices and sessions covering pertinent issues facing the future of broadcasting, the Festival is best known for its keynote address; the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture. This features prescient speeches from controversial and powerful media figures that reads like a who's who of British TV over the last 3 decades. In recent years this has included Greg Dyke , John Birt , Mark Thompson , Tony Ball , John Humphreys and in 1989 ; Rupert Murdoch . Probably the most well known speech was by an ill Dennis Potter in 1993 when he attacked the then chairman and director general of the BBC by saying; "you cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Dalek s appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke." John Birt returned to give the Lecture in 2005. EXTERNAL LINKS
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