Though he doesn't mention the BBC specifically, he does have a real go at the Arts Council with its emphasis on upholding 'artistic standards' (i.e. Covent Garden, the big galleries etc) rather than promoting active involvement in music, painting etc. Cultural elitism is very much his target - he seems to have it in for Jeanette Winterson big time!
I first came across him in a TV documentary based on an earlier book 'The Intellectuals and the Masses' where he charts how the cultural elite strove to distance itself from the growing literacy of the mass population by creating an increasingly obscure art world. Must read the book now.
I haven't seen the TV prog, Bev - is his position that 'difficult' artistes like Picasso, Schoenberg, Beckett, Rothko, Corigliano, Bellow etc etc deliberately created their works in the hopes that virtually no one would get anything out of them?