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This is a global player original podcast. This week, we have seen the government attacking the BBC

for not being impartial. Couldn't quite give evidence of it, but nevertheless, that was the charge.

Today, a magazine article has been written by a former Guardian editor, in which he says,

the BBC has been captured by the government, and that the person who is adjudicating within the BBC, what is impartial and what is not, is someone who was knighted for his services to the Conservative Prime Minister.

That person is Robbie Gibb, now Sir Robbie Gibb, who worked in Downing Street at Theresa May's side, who is now on the BBC's board of directors

and is now telling BBC journalists what they should or shouldn't be writing.

So has the BBC really been captured by the government?

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It's Emily.

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And in a moment we're going to be talking about what happened last night at around 9 o'clock,

where the former levelling up minister, the former member of the cabinet, Sir Simon Clark, suddenly kind of went off on one.

And in a piece for the telegraph, which he submitted, we think earlier than he had intended,

he basically called for Rishi Sunak to go and said that Rishi Sunak would take the Conservative Party to disaster

and they had one last

chance to fight it before the election came. We'll be discussing all that and what it might mean

a little bit later. We're going to start with two themes that have sort of overlap this week.

There has been Kirstama talking about the assault on national institutions, which we

discussed on Monday's podcast. And, you know, Stama was framing it in terms of the R&I and the

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