Ecce homo

We're worried about Jimmy, sorry, James Purnell. On Christmas Eve, a time for wrapping, the pub, and midnight mass, the BBC's Directory of Digital and Strategy plaintively tweeted his 13,000 followers thus...

favourite books on Nietzsche?
— James Purnell (@jimpurnell) December 24, 2013

We presume he means every teenager's favourite philosopher, Freidrich Nietzsche, the man who declared "God is dead", rather than some Bundesliga 2 prospect sought by Arsene Wenger in the January transfer window.

Clearly BBC festive programming - Christmas Eve Eastenders on 1, Morecambe & Wise highlights on 2 - was insufficient to distract Jim from a search for greater understanding; but is the quest for knowledge driven by an inner struggle - or does, perhaps, Nietzsche offer ideas that might help with BBC Charter renewal ?