RogerBoltonsBeebWatch

Roger Bolton, ex presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback'. Whether you love or loathe the BBC this is the podcast for you. [email protected]

[RogerBoltonsBeebWatch @BeebRoger]

🎙️ Has Ofcom lost its intellectual confidence?

@PeterHorrocks ex BBC Newsnight & Panorama editor & outgoing Ofcom Content Board member, thinks it has.

A revealing insider’s perspective on Ofcom, Russell Brand, GB News & the BBC’s defensive mindset.

🎧 https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

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Sunday breakfast shows on BBC local radio have fallen from 14 to six.

Boom Radio’s @DavidLloydRADIO on what could replace it, and Ofcom’s role.

🎧 Full episode: https://t.co/BGTXW6NZ4j

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The BBC has no correspondent in South America. Who decided that, and on what basis?

Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger on BBC governance, why journalists need someone in their corner, and what the Guardian’s digital transformation can teach the BBC.

🎧 Full ep https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

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@stephensackur ex-BBC HARDtalk presenter, on investigative journalism, impartiality and his book ‘Hard Truth’.

🎧Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

#Journalism #HARDtalk

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"She didn't mention the BBC once." @DEADLINE's @Jake_Kanter on Lisa Nandy's conference speech, the Jupp appointment, BBC cuts and the Royal Charter debate.

🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/BGTXW6NZ4j

[Roger Mosey @rogermosey]

On the day of a disappointing select committee report - which basically says “let’s just muddle through with a ‘reformed’ licence fee” - here are some wider thoughts on BBC charter renewal.

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“The cuts they’re making in news, in some cases, seem random and unjustified.”
What do those cuts say about the BBC’s vision for its future? @rogermosey discusses the BBC's priorities, digital ambitions and the case for public service broadcasting.
🎧 https://t.co/BGTXW6NZ4j

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“Has the BBC board failed?”
In light of more BBC job cuts, I talk to @TMChivers Dr Tom Chivers @mediareformUK – whose PhD was on the last BBC Charter Review about a “real moment of reckoning” for public service media.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

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@JWhittingdale negotiated the last BBC Charter. In our new Beeb Watch episode, he reflects on this Charter review, the funding squeeze, “trusted news” plans, GB News and how far politicians should shape the BBC.

Full conversation 🎧 https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

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Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated - despite what Wikipedia says, I'm alive and kicking.

New series of Beeb Watch is out now. @matt Deegan joins to explain why it's time to blow up the BBC to save it.

🎧 https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

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David Cameron once offered Ann Widdecombe the ambassadorship to the Vatican. She turned it down. Just one of the stories from @IainDale who talks LBC, the Tories, the BBC, and his memoir 'Have I Said Too Much?' in this week's episode.

🎧 Full ep: https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

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"Licence is a licence. The same regulations apply to the BBC and ITV and Sky and everybody else as apply to GB News."

Lord Michael Grade — ex-BBC & ITV chairman, former Ofcom chair — on whether broadcasting standards are really applied evenly.

🎧https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

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"ITV have said if we don't get prominence legislation, we'll just won't renew our licence."

🎙️Prof Cathy Johnson on the government's media green paper.
We unpack why prominence, discoverability & amplification are now central to media policy
🎧 https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

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Time to share the licence fee?

Jonathan Heawood (Public Interest News Foundation, @impress_org ) on the rise of Manchester’s independent newsletter @ManchesterMill its Andy Burnham scoop, & what it means for the future of local journalism.

🎧 Listen: https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

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Few people are better placed to judge the BBC’s future than Mark Damazer – ex Radio 4 Controller, Deputy Director of News & BBC Trustee.

We discuss BBC cuts, “digital‑first” for radio & TV, and what Matt Brittin and PSB supporters must do next.

🎧 https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

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Is the BBC still trusted – & by whom?
@TomLoxley brand & editorial director of @RadioTimes
on what hundreds of readers’ letters reveal about the BBC’s future: trust, impartiality, the licence fee, talent, & staying relevant to younger audiences.
🎧https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL

[Michael Savage @michaelsavage]

NEW: With the BBC in crisis after bias claims last year, it was hit by another blow - the chair of the Commons culture committee wrote a piece condemning its “institutional bias”.

One problem, however - she now says she didn’t write it.

A curious tale:

https://t.co/rOz3Pt3yJO

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Great pick up from my extraordinary interview this week on Beeb Watch.

https://t.co/DkPCftnhvc

[Stephen Cushion @Stephen_Cushion]

Well worth a listen and dramatic scenes half way through podcast 👇

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This week on Beeb Watch we speak to @cj_dinenage the MP chairing Parliament's inquiry into the BBC's Royal Charter Review. Plenty to discuss - funding, governance, impartiality.

And there's a moment we've never had in the history of this podcast.

🎧 https://t.co/BGTXW6NreL