article_snippet: Close protection: BBC director general Tony Hall, second right, gets out of a Range Rover outside his £1.5million home in Oxfordshire .
article_snippet: In response, BBC BBC hired security firm London Protection Services Ltd to protect Lord Hall, 64, and he wife Cynthia, 62, at a cost estimated at more than £1,000 a day.
article_snippet: Guards in marked and unmarked vehicles were seen outside the couple’s £1.5million 18th century home in Oxfordshire.
article_snippet: ‘Some of the operation was visible, as a deterrent, while other bodyguards would have kept a very low profile.
article_snippet: ’ Lord Hall leaves ’ Lord Hall home last week accompanied by guards, with the bill expected to run into the thousands .
article_snippet: London Protection Services boasts of having 1,000 certified guards available nationwide and is said to charge £300 per man per shift.
highlights_snippet: BBC hired bodyguards to protect Lord Hall after Lord Hall received a death threat .
  