Can the BBC survive this crisis?
Politics Weekly UK
The Guardian
4.0 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:10.2 | Breaking news to bring you about the BBC. |
| 0:12.4 | The BBC chairman has announced that both the Director-General, Tim Davy, and the new CEO, Deborah Tennis, are to resign. |
| 0:20.4 | I step down over the weekend because the buck stops with me. |
| 0:23.7 | I'd like to make one thing very clear. |
| 0:25.8 | BBC News is not institutionally biased. |
| 0:29.6 | Decisions about editorial standards, editorial guidelines, |
| 0:33.8 | the sort of language that is used in reporting, |
| 0:36.3 | is entirely inconsistent. I'm Pippa Carreira. |
| 0:39.7 | And I'm Kieran Stacey. You're listening to Politics Weekly UK for The Guardian. |
| 0:48.9 | Well, hello, Kieran. We're back here again on a Monday morning and it feels like a world of difference from last week. |
| 0:55.6 | So much has happened over the weekend. |
| 0:57.7 | Well, not least, Pippa, because it being recess, we are not in our broom cupboard. |
| 1:01.4 | We are in the very spacious, glamorous, luxurious surrounds of the Guardian's head office up in Kings Cross. |
| 1:08.4 | And we actually have space to see each other and, you know, |
| 1:12.0 | actually talk properly without kind of perspiring in the middle of that parliamentary office. |
| 1:18.5 | Or expiring. Or expiring. But you'd have seen the news, of course, on Sunday evening that |
| 1:23.8 | the BBC's Director General Tim Davy and its head of news, Deborah Ternis, |
| 1:28.4 | have resigned after a report by a guy called Michael Prescott, who was a former advisor to the BBC. |
| 1:34.0 | That report accused the corporation of serious and systemic bias in its coverage of issues, |
| 1:38.8 | including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights. |
| 1:42.2 | It does definitely feel like there's not a week that goes by where there's |
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