But we got a few insights.
Shah was asked about the vacuum created by his failure to apologise for the misleading Donald Trump edit once it was made public in the Telegraph newspaper.
He suggested he hadn’t accepted the apology being suggested by news executives, because it wasn’t sufficient.
Caroline Thomson sitting beside him described there being a “continuing and sharp difference of opinion between the chairman and me and others on the board with the director of news”. She said that was around whether to apologise for the edit or whether the impact of the edit had given a misleading impression. Some board members felt it had.
We also heard for the first time from Sir Robbie Gibb, the former BBC executive and Downing Street head of communications under Theresa May, who’s one of the political appointees to the board.
He has been accused by some of political interference.
On Monday, he denied that – saying he’s become weaponised, and that he has impartiality in his bones.
And when Sir Robbie was asked directly whether there had been a politically motivated coup, as some people had suggested, he said it was a ridiculous charge, complete nonsense and offensive to board members.
Whether that is enough to quell the critics is another matter.
