Linekergate and the weekend’s Premier League verdict – Football Weekly podcast
Football Weekly
The Guardian
4.5 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, everybody, Max here, recording a second voice note. |
| 0:11.2 | You won't hear the first voice note. |
| 0:13.2 | Anyway, the news about Gary Linica returning to presenting duties, |
| 0:16.4 | broke after we finished recording the pod. |
| 0:18.2 | It doesn't really change the substance of the discussion we had about |
| 0:22.3 | impartiality at the BBC, what happened match of the day. |
| 0:25.8 | And obviously the humanitarian crisis that leads to |
| 0:28.9 | desperate people getting on dinghies to try and get to this country. |
| 0:33.2 | But Gary Linica has said, I'm glad we found a way forward. |
| 0:36.8 | I support this review. |
| 0:37.8 | I look forward to getting back on air. |
| 0:39.0 | The BBC Director General Tim Davis said everyone recognized this has been a difficult |
| 0:43.0 | period for staff contributors, presenters and most importantly, our audiences. |
| 0:46.4 | I apologise for this. |
| 0:49.3 | He also announced an independent review on the BBC's existing social media |
| 0:53.5 | gardens with a particular focus on how it applies to freelancers outside news |
| 0:59.2 | and current affairs. |
| 1:00.8 | That match of the day, without a theme tune, without presenters, without pundits, |
| 1:05.0 | and when that commentary was a one off or a two off, I didn't watch much of the |
| 1:09.5 | day too. But we discuss it in part one. |
| 1:11.6 | Then we do the football and the rest of the pod. |
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