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Nov 2021
48m 25s

The government vs the BBC: A Hundred Yea...

POLITICO
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This week Jack picks through the long and turbulent relationship between the government and the BBC, and asks why these two great pillars of British public life can't seem to get along. Veteran BBC Radio 4 presenter and author Edward Stourton and BBC historian Professor Jean Seaton discuss the checkered history of government/BBC relations, from the 1926 Gene ... Show More
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