Daily: Auntie Matter – The BBC’s 100-year battle with government

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The BBC: nest of woke lefty propaganda or tame right-wing mouthpiece? Or something more complex? As the BBC marks its 100th birthday and Nadine Dorries tries to kill off the Licence Fee, Simon Potter – author of This Is The BBC: Entertaining The Nation, Speaking For Britain? – talks to Andrew Harrison about the Corporation’s tangled roots, clouded future, much-contested purpose… and why politicians from left, right and centre always seem to hate it. • “Once you let broadcasting into politics, you’ll never get politics out of broadcasting.” • “The BBC has a mission to expand its empire into every single media possible.” Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant producer: Elina Ganatra. Lead producer: Jacob Jarvis. Audio production by Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.5	Never mind Brexit, never mind COVID or the economy.
1:18.9	It's when will the BBC lose its license fee?
1:21.3	A constant target of the mail and the Murdoch press, a hate figure for free
1:24.5	marketers and culture warriors, the corporation has become an all-purpose punch bag. The left thinks
1:29.6	it's biased against them, the right think it's full of lefties. Scottish nationalists think it's
1:34.0	Westminster propaganda and columnists stuck for a topic think it's a bastion of woke.
1:39.2	Yet the BBC retains huge audiences and centrality to British culture and soft power as well.
1:44.4	As of 2020, 32% of all TV watched in the UK came from a BBC channel.
1:49.0	Its global audience across TV, radio and internet is now half a billion people a week.
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