One of the best remembered speeches was given in 1993 by an ill Dennis Potter, who attacked the chairman and director general of the BBC of the day by saying: "you cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke."
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In recent years this has included Greg Dyke, John Birt, Mark Thompson, Tony Ball, John Humphrys and in 1989, Rupert Murdoch.
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The media commentator Maggie Brown has criticised the event for featuring only three women as speakers (Christine Ockrent, Verity Lambert and Janet Street-Porter) in the course of its history.
Channel controller Richard Woolfe hinted at the Edinburgh International Television Festival that the show had reached a conclusion and would be replaced by other female-skewing shows in the lineup.
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28 August – At the Edinburgh International Television Festival News Corporation Chairman James Murdoch delivers the MacTaggart Memorial Lecture in which he launches an attack on the BBC and UK media regulator Ofcom.