Trouble for Auntie: Testing times at the BBC
The Story21 Sep 2021

Trouble for Auntie: Testing times at the BBC

It's been an intense year for the BBC: budget cuts, a series of staff departures and redundancies, accusations of bias… and now, it has a hawkish new culture secretary to contend with. Plus, just around the corner, a new deal with the government over the licence fee is widely expected to shrink budgets further. How will the BBC look and sound for future generations?

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