World disservice: Who wins if the BBC loses its global power?

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The BBC World Service is under attack. The global broadcaster reaches an audience of over 500 million listeners across the globe. But budget cuts and the exit of some territories have left the BBC service a shell of its former self. Alex Andreou is joined in The Bunker by Simon Potter, professor of modern history at Bristol University and author of This is the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain, 1922-2022, to find out who benefits from the downfall of the BBC World Service? “I think it’s inescapable to argue that the BBC has always faced hostility throughout its existence” – Simon Potter “Despite the budget cuts the BBC still has the largest audience the across the world it’s ever had” – Simon Potter “An independent global BBC is a much more powerful tool than a directly state controlled broadcaster.” – Simon Potter Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Assistant producer: Adam Wright. Audio producer: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.4	BBC at home and its realization that the World Service offers a key tool of global soft power, one that keeps the United Kingdom central to how many
1:25.9	listeners imagine the world and helps to subtly promote British perspectives on international affairs.
1:32.2	Those are the words of today's guest,
1:34.7	a professor of modern history at the University of Bristol
1:37.4	whose lifelong research subject has been the BBC,
1:40.8	perceptions of it across the world and international notions of Britishness as generated by such institutions.
1:47.0	culminating in his book, This is the B.C. Entertaining the Nation speaking for Britain in 1922 to
1:54.0	2022. Welcome back to the bunker Professor Simon J Potter.
1:58.0	Thanks for having me Alex.
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