BBC Tackles Gary Lineker

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What should the BBC do about the Match of the Day host, after criticism of his tweets on the government's asylum policy? Former director of BBC News, Richard Sambrook, reveals how he would handle the comments, from an impartiality point of view, and media editor, Katie Razzall, discusses what the future could look like for the Match of the Day presenter. Also, Adam speaks to Nasa's Dr Nicola Fox about her meteoric rise to become the first woman as its head of science. Today's episode was presented by Adam Fleming and was made by Tim Walklate with Josh Jenkins, Sinead Carroll, Madeleine Drury and Daniel Wittenberg. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello. Later on the podcast, we're going to have a new friend of the podcast.
0:08.4	It's NASA's new head of science, who is a Brit, Dr. Nicola Fox.
0:12.6	And she's here now. Hello, Dr. Fox. Hello.
0:15.2	Would you like to give us a classic NASA countdown for this episode of newscast?
0:20.1	I'm very happy to. Yes. Whether it's looking good, systems are
0:24.6	good. We'll go for this launch of the newscast podcast. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
0:41.0	We have liftoff of newscast. Newscast.
0:45.4	Newscast from the BBC. He got trounced by the former prime minister,
0:49.6	who herself got beaten by a lettuce.
0:51.5	At least I didn't slap anybody, which is good.
0:55.3	It's the Guardian reading. Tofu eating.
0:58.7	Woke her hearty. I'm actually very right-wing.
1:01.0	You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle.
1:03.0	Today I feel gay. The prime minister is not under a desk.
1:07.2	I'm here because I like Harry and Meghan, and I don't care what anybody says about me.
1:11.6	Hello, it's Adam in the studio, and Dr. Fox will be back to speak to us about space
1:16.0	from NASA HQ a bit later on. But first of all,
1:18.8	Gary Lenaker from Match of the Day. You know who Gary Lenaker is.
1:22.1	It says he's going to keep on speaking up for people who he says have no voice.
1:26.6	This is after he was criticized for a tweet he sent,
1:30.5	criticizing the government's new migration policy, which we were talking about quite a lot
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