BBC in the Dock: Time to Scrap the Licence Fee?
The Jon Gaunt Show
Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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BBC in the Dock: Time to Scrap the Licence Fee?
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The BBC is back in the dock — MPs are grilling bosses, Panorama and Trump coverage are under fresh allegations, and the public is losing patience. So tonight we're asking the big one: Is it time to scrap the Licence Fee?
In a world of YouTube, streaming, and choice, is the BBC still fit for purpose? Or is Auntie clinging to a model from the last century while viewers walk away?
I want YOUR views. I won't hold back. And neither should you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, good evening and welcome to the John Gorn podcast. Tonight, the BBC is in the dock. |
| 0:09.6 | There before, a very influential meeting of MPs. And I guess it now comes to the question, |
| 0:17.2 | is it time to scrap the licence fee? Do we need to make the BBC smaller? What's your opinion? After the |
| 0:25.2 | Donald Trump affair, the Panorama program, is it time to cut the BBC down to size? Is the BBC just too big? |
| 0:35.1 | Is it biased? Is it institutionally biased, either left or right? I want your |
| 0:42.5 | opinions tonight, please. It's the big one. They're in the, they're in today, they're in a sort of |
| 0:48.7 | annex off the, well, the other side of the road, actually, to the House of Commons. The chairman |
| 0:53.9 | has apologized to the public and the licence fee payers, |
| 0:58.1 | and rightly so. |
| 0:59.9 | But basically, it sounds like they didn't know what they were doing. |
| 1:03.4 | It was complete and utter chaos. |
| 1:07.4 | Is the BBC just too big? |
| 1:09.8 | Why don't we cut it down to size? Have the news as one thing over here, |
| 1:15.5 | which you can pay for if you want or not, and then the entertainment over the other side, |
| 1:19.8 | and maybe that can be sponsored. I want your views. So good evening. It's John Gawndt here. |
| 1:25.0 | Here we're discussing, well, I think it's lighting the fuse of a debate that's been bubbling |
| 1:30.8 | away for years. |
| 1:32.5 | The BBC, yes, anti, is well and truly back in the spotlight with MPs digging into |
| 1:38.8 | fresh allegations of political bias. |
| 1:42.2 | And this time it involves Donald Trump. |
| 1:44.5 | Also Donald Trump saying he's going to sue them for billions. |
| 1:48.9 | Is the public's patience wearing thin? |
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