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The Lesley Riddoch Podcast

Where's Your Cameras BBC?

The Lesley Riddoch Podcast

Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson

Politics, Scottish Independence, Society & Culture, Scottish Politics, Uk Politics, News, Political Chat, Political Commentary

4.6274 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The BBC's had a pretty bad week, North and South of the border. We look at the suggestions that Robbie Gibb, the right-winger on the BBC board, has led a bit of a coup to get rid of the Director General and Head of News. What happens next? Does the license fee payer have to cough up millions to compensate Donald Trump for apparent hurt to his reputation?

We discuss that, plus the hurt to Yesers in Scotland and that there has hardly been a mention of the lack of trust, visible and measurable in Scotland as a result of handling of the Indyref. We examine some of the most outragous examples of BBC Bias and recall the protests. We also look also at prisons and the problems in England with the mistaken release of dangerous offenders. We also discuss planned early release in Scotland. What's that about, and why are our prisons filled to bursting?


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London Calling: BBC bias during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum

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Scotcast about BBC bias on Panorama starts with Senior Producer Natalie Higgins and Martin Geissler

Then Brian Taylor and Liz Lloyd on IndyRef

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YouGov Media Trust findings
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Transcript

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0:00.0

The BBC's had a pretty bad week, north and south of the border.

0:03.9

We look at the suggestions that Robbie Gibb, the right winger on the BBC board,

0:09.0

has led a bit of a coup to get rid of the Director General and Head of News.

0:12.9

What happens next?

0:14.1

Does the licence fee payer have to cough up millions to compensate Donald Trump for apparent hurt to his reputation.

0:21.5

We discussed that, plus the hurt to yesers in Scotland

0:24.7

that there's hardly a mention of the lack of trust,

0:28.4

visible and measurable in Scotland as a result of handling of the Indyref all those years ago.

0:33.6

We look also at prisons.

0:35.8

David Lamy had a very bad week last week with all the escapees south of the border, but there is a planned release, early release in Scotland. What's that about and why are our prisons full to bursting? We look at all of that with much more. Those are the headlines now for the podcast.

0:54.0

Hi, Chums and welcome to this week's Leslie Rinnock podcast, Leslie. with much more. Those are the headlines now for the podcast.

0:59.8

Hi, Chums. And welcome to this week's Leslie Rennerk podcast. Leslie, you've returned from afar.

1:05.8

Yes, I'm just laughing at you because you're, you're fill of cold the same as me, aren't you?

1:09.0

You're kind of, you're giving it lalty, which is incredible. With my usual booming, hopefully the little AI bots.

1:14.1

I've said, get up on the booming for God's sake, yeah.

1:15.4

No, anyway, nobody's got a kind of editorial line on booming here, which probably leads us into.

1:22.7

It's been a rough week for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

1:26.5

First of all, they had you on any questions,

1:28.9

which was quite spicy. Limited applause, I noticed, for Mr Bowie and Mr. Shanks, but you were given it

1:36.1

laldy. Yeah, in case anyone thought, thinks that there's been a reincarnation of the, you know,

1:41.9

the fabulous David. It was Andrew Bowie of that parish, the Tory MP,

1:47.1

who's also, I think, shadow energy for the Tories.

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