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🗓️ 23 May 2021
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0:15.5 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
0:24.0 | Today's political shows were dominated by the fallout from the Dyson Inquiry into the BBC and its relationship with the journalist Martin Bashir. |
0:31.6 | The findings of Lord Dyson's report have already seen Tony Hall, the BBC's former Director-General, resign his post as chair of the |
0:38.8 | National Gallery. Andrew Marr spoke to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, about what might happen next. |
0:45.5 | Oliver Dowden, the Culture Secretary, said the government will consider, and I quote, |
0:48.7 | whether further governance reforms at the BBC are needed in the mid-term Charter Review, which, |
0:53.4 | as he says, next year. |
0:54.6 | What kind of reforms do you think might be needed? |
0:57.0 | So absolutely, I think the Culture Secretary is absolutely right around governance, accountability, transparency. |
1:04.9 | But, Andrew, I think we also have to reflect. |
1:06.9 | We live in the age of multimedia. |
1:09.4 | The role of the BBC, when it comes to its performance, where it stands in a multimedia world, this is the Netflix generation. |
1:16.6 | You know, how relevant is the BBC? |
1:18.6 | Some of the cultural associations with the BBC as well, I'm sure there'll be many, many issues. |
1:24.6 | But right now, I think it is important, actually, that accountability, |
1:29.3 | trust and confidence, those fundamental pillars are addressed. And Andrew, you mentioned it |
1:34.3 | earlier on that, you know, the BBC did not put anyone up this morning to even answer questions |
1:39.6 | in the same way that I'm here asking questions on some of my area in the government later on. |
1:43.5 | But the review |
1:45.0 | has been published, report has been published, and this is going to be a very significant and serious |
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