By Alasdair Glennie PUBLISHED: 20:23 EST, 29 December 2013 | UPDATED: 20:24 EST, 29 December 2013 The BBC handed one of its top executives a £200,000 golden goodbye – then rehired him two years later. Former Radio 1 boss Matthew Bannister – once nicknamed ‘the fat controller’ by DJ Chris Evans – is still on the corporation’s payroll more than a decade after he pocketed the huge severance sum. Details of his extraordinary payoff can be revealed by the Daily Mail as it emerged the BBC re-employed 233 staff it made redundant in the past decade, including another executive given £365,000 as he left.
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Former Radio 1 boss Matthew Bannister is still on corporation's payroll
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He received a £200,000 golden goodbye when he left the job in 2000
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But he was rehired by BBC two years later as Radio 5 Live presenter
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Broadcaster has re-employed 233 redundant staff in the past decade
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