Inside the BBC: What really went on
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Over the last 48 hours, The News Agents have spoken to more than 30 people - insiders at the BBC - to try and work out the facts of what actually happened inside the corporation, and when. Both the Director General and the CEO of News resigned over the weekend, so why are some talking about a “right wing coup“? Why did the apology take so long to arrive? And why is Trump now threatening the state broadcaster with legal action?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | I would like to say it has been the privilege of my career to serve as the CEO of BBC News |
| 0:18.7 | and to work with our brilliant team of journalists. I step down |
| 0:23.7 | over the weekend because the buck stops with me. But I'd like to make one thing very clear. |
| 0:29.3 | BBC News is not institutionally biased. That's why it's the world's most trusted news provider. |
| 0:37.8 | Why did you fail? Why did you fail to deal with the mistakes that were made? |
| 0:41.3 | And see my teams. Thank you so much. |
| 0:43.0 | Make no mistake. |
| 0:44.3 | There are shots being fired there by Debrittoness, the outgoing head of BBC news. |
| 0:50.5 | Is she suggesting that forces within the BBC itself were trying to undermine the editorial |
| 0:58.5 | impartiality of the job she and journalists were trying to do? We've seen the departure of her |
| 1:05.2 | and the Director General. The headline is it was all down to Donald Trump and the editing |
| 1:10.8 | of a panorama clip. |
| 1:12.9 | But there is much, much more that is dark and murky about what has gone on. |
| 1:19.2 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:25.0 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:26.6 | It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:27.9 | And it's Lewis. And we are in the extraordinary position this Monday afternoon of a president of the United States claiming credit for the resignation of the boss, the director general of the BBC, and the Head of News of the BBC, a foreign power, |
| 1:48.0 | a foreign head of government, basically saying he got them sacks or forced their resignation. |
| 1:53.5 | This is what Donald Trump put on Truth Social last night following the resignations of Tim Davy, |
| 1:58.9 | the Director General of the BBC for some five years, |
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