The BBC, Richard Sharp and ‘Impartiality’
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 910 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The BBC chair Richard Sharp has lost authority whether he stays or goes. Where does that leave his search for ‘impartiality’? Plus brilliant questions on Brexit, Andy Burnham and much more..
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me Steve Richards. |
| 0:32.8 | It's the twice weekly podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | Thank you so much for tuning in, wherever you are in the UK and indeed the |
| 0:39.0 | rest of the world. And as ever, we have got so much to cram in in our time together. We've got |
| 0:46.3 | some brilliant questions from you and a whole range. Lots from the United States this week, |
| 0:52.4 | but quite a bit on Brexit, some follow-ups to the interview |
| 0:56.8 | I did with Andy Burnham, now of course the mayor of Greater Manchester, and yeah, a whole range |
| 1:03.0 | of brilliant questions and points from the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative. We are gathering to make |
| 1:10.0 | sense of it all. |
| 1:11.3 | If it's okay with all of you, I will reflect on what the deeper issues are in relation to Richard Sharp, the chairman of the BBC, and what it kind of tells us more about the BBC. |
| 1:26.3 | You know, there's been a lot about what it tells us |
| 1:29.9 | about the appointment process and the establishment and so on and Boris Johnson and Money and |
| 1:37.6 | Richard Sharp's view of money and Boris Johnson, all of which are fascinating and shine light in a way on the Johnson regime. |
| 1:47.8 | And I will reflect a bit on that as well, of course, because it's all interconnected, |
| 1:52.0 | but a bit on the BBC too. |
| 1:54.9 | And then we return to your fantastic questions. |
| 1:58.9 | The live shows are coming up very soon, starting next month. |
| 2:04.7 | And they are all listed in the blurb for the podcast, and so you can just tap on them and get |
| 2:10.3 | tickets because, yeah, it feels to me that this is an important time for live events where we gather to make sense of it all and yeah who |
| 2:21.3 | knows where we will be by then I think I mentioned last week they all hover around that period of |
| 2:26.1 | the budget which is one of these budgets which are both politically and economically compelling |
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