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Today in Parliament

24/11/2025

Today in Parliament

BBC

Government

4.4162 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Alicia McCarthy reports as the the BBC chair Samir Shah faces the Culture Committee in the wake of recent troubles.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.

0:06.0

Order. Order.

0:08.6

Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for BBC Radio 4 for Monday the 24th of November,

0:16.2

where the author of a memo highlighting mistakes in the editing of a Donald Trump speech by the BBC

0:21.7

criticises the corporation's handling of editorial failures.

0:26.0

What I was frequently seeing was that the BBC's idea of dealing with something

0:30.5

was to change the editors around, tweak the written guidelines.

0:35.6

Also tonight, MP's question why West Midlands police

0:39.2

banned Israeli fans from their club's match against Aston Villa.

0:43.0

Under pressure from Islamist agitators, local politicians and thugs,

0:47.9

an English police force is accused of fabricating intelligence and misleading the public.

0:53.2

And peers call for more funding and more awareness of

0:56.6

brain cancer. The biggest killer of children and adults under the age of 40 in the UK. But first,

1:05.1

a former BBC advisor who wrote a memo on editorial standards that led to resignations at the top of the corporation

1:12.1

has told MPs that problems he highlighted were getting worse and not being tackled properly.

1:18.0

But Michael Prescott said he didn't think the corporation was institutionally biased.

1:23.4

The document Michael Prescott wrote highlighted concerns about the way a speech by Donald Trump was edited.

1:29.7

The BBC's Director-General, Tim Davy, and its head of news, Deborah Tenness, both resigned over the row

1:35.7

and the US President is now threatening to sue the BBC for billions of dollars.

1:41.5

Appearing before the Commons Culture Committee, Michael Prescott explained his actions.

1:46.1

I wrote that memo. Let me be clear, because I am a strong supporter of the BBC. The BBC employs

1:52.2

talented professionals across all of its factual and non-factual programmes, and most people

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