The Sun, the BBC and Huw Edwards: the story of a scandal
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The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.5 | Today, should the story about the BBC presenter ever have been published? |
| 0:17.3 | After days of sorted speculation and gossip, set off by a front page story published by the Sun, |
| 0:32.3 | on Wednesday evening there was finally some clarity. |
| 0:36.5 | Hugh Edwards, one of the country's most famous news anchors, was named as the mysterious |
| 0:42.5 | BBC presenter at the heart of some very serious allegations. |
| 0:49.2 | Hugh Edwards is one of the few figures on British television that everyone would know on the street. |
| 0:55.0 | Now the first images have been published of the wreckage of the Titan, that's the submersible |
| 1:00.7 | that imploded. Whether it was your gran or whether it was one of the young people who increasingly |
| 1:06.0 | don't even watch any BBC content. The United Kingdom is the first European state to record more than |
| 1:10.8 | 100,000 deaths linked to the pandemic. He's been the main presenter of the BBC's main evening |
| 1:16.9 | news bulletin for 20 years. He is a lifetime BBC employee. He fronts their royal coverage. |
| 1:23.7 | A few moments ago, Buckingham Palace announced the death of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 1:30.2 | The palace has just issued this statement. It says the Queen died peacefully at Ballmoral this afternoon. |
| 1:39.1 | He is the main face of BBC news if there is one. |
| 1:47.1 | As we record, Hugh Edwards is being treated in hospital, receiving mental health care. |
| 1:54.5 | Despite the media frenzy, the police have made clear that there is no criminal case to answer. |
| 2:01.2 | But the BBC is continuing an investigation into Edwards' conduct, seemingly both on air and |
| 2:07.6 | off it. Meanwhile, the Sun newspaper, which broke the original story, faces major questions. |
| 2:16.0 | How did its journalists justify running such a massive story with so little apparent evidence? |
| 2:24.0 | It's been a week of muck-raking, legal jeopardy of two massive media companies desperately trying |
| 2:31.0 | to get their story straight, while a presenter is left with his career and life devastated. |
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