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Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch

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Roger Bolton,formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4"s "Feedback" launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a little bit wider to encompass the whole of the BBC, Roger examines the issues that are facing the corporation and public service broadcasting.Find all our podcastshereAnd please support this podcast by subscribinghereWe also support VLV (Voice of the Listener and Viewer) which represents the interests of

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29:44

Richard Ayre, former senior BBC Executive and former...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/09/28

Richard Ayre, former controller of BBC editorial policy and a former member of the OFCOM content board is now the chair of the independent press regulator Impress. On this week's programme we discuss the newly published BBC social media guidelines in response to the Gary Lineker controversy last March. We also look at Ofcom's regulation of GB News and the Russell Brand affair.“Gary is a highly intelligent guy, the fact that he's welcomed these guidelines today, the fact that he never apologised or

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30:18

Katy Searle, former BBC director of news programmes...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/09/20

Katy Searle has recently left the BBC after a long career in news – over three decades.She was in charge of all of the BBC’s political output for 8 years up until last year, during which time huge savings had to be made. More recently Katy was director of news programmes and current affairs. We discuss the Russell Brand scandal, Ofcom's decision on GB News, impartiality and the impact of cuts on the organisation."If you look at how long the Brand's investigation took, they spent two years doing

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32:53

Nick Ferrari, LBC breakfast presenter on competition...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/09/14

Nick Ferrari, LBC breakfast presenter and one of the UK's longest serving commercial radio presenters discusses impartiality, local radio, journalistic license and competition with the 'Today' programme. “Within the M25 we put up a fight against ‘Today’, we're not bad, but they are an absolute giant. Once you start getting out of the M25, I more than keep my own against ‘Today’. And you go to some cities, and actually, I will outperform the show in some cities.”He also looks back on a remarkable

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36:05

Samira Ahmed, BBC 'Newswatch' and 'Front Row'...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/07/20

Samira Ahmed is the presenter of Radio 4’s arts programme ‘Front Row’ and for eleven yearshas presented 'Newswatch' – the sister programme and television news equivalent to 'Feedback' - which also aims to hold the BBC to account on behalf the licence fee payer. We discuss BBC coverage of the Huw Edwards story, the ability of 'Newswatch' and 'Feedback' programmes to hold the BBC to account and pay inequality."Let's face it, it's mostly older white men coming out to speak on this and a lot of it has

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20:09

Professor Steven Barnett on the BBC presenter scandal

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/07/12

Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster is a writer and broadcaster who has been involved in policy analysis at the highest levels, both nationally and internationally, for the last 35 years. Roger and Steven discusses the BBC presenter scandal: the actions of the BBC and Sun newspaper, BBC coverage of the story, privacy laws and whether the BBC is facing an existential crisis.“I think it's self-indulgent and I think it's self-obsessive.And it's self-indulgent to

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30:46

Andrew Neil, veteran broadcaster discusses...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/07/05

Andrew Neil, the former Sunday Times editor has become arguably the best political interviewer in the business, someone whom Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were desperate to avoid. This week we’re talking to the man who spent 25 years at the BBC presenting programmes such as This Week, Sunday Politics, The Daily Politics, and Politics Live.Andrew Neil then left the corporation and became the lead presenter and chairman of GB News, but not for long. After only 8 programmes he left.Due to cuts at

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16:16

Stewart Purvis, former Ofcom regulator on Ofcom...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/07/04

Ofcom, the UK communications industry regulator was in front of the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport select committee on Tuesday on the same day as Ofcom chief executive Melanie Dawes published an article in the Daily Telegraph. In recent years, an increasing number of politicians have fronted or guest presented current affairs programmes. Professor Stewart Purvis, former content and standards partner at Ofcom and ITN Chief Executive watches the proceedings in parliament and discusses Ofcom

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27:02

Henry Hill, deputy editor Conservative Home discusses...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/06/29

Henry Hill is the deputy editor of the Conservative Home website. He discusses the growing trend of partisan news channels, regulation, funding models, impartiality, political interviews and Conservative attitudes to the BBC and BBC reform.“If support for the BBC on the right collapses, whether you think that that collapse is justified or not, whether you think the criticisms are justified or not, it then becomes regardless of that, very difficult to justify having a corporation and a broadcaster

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34:29

Tony Hall, former BBC Director General on the need...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/06/21

Tony Hall – Lord Hall of Birkenhead - was the director general of the BBC from 2013 until 2020.He joined the Corporation as a trainee in 1973 rising to director of BBC News and current affairs in 1990 and continued to lead BBC News until 2001.During his tenure he launched BBC Parliament, BBC 5 Live, BBC News 24 and BBC News Online, before taking some time off to run the Royal Opera house in Covent Garden.He also spent time on Channel 4’s board. Tony calls for a debate on public service media and

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33:21

Martin Rosenbaum, former BBC Freedom of Information...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/06/15

Martin Rosenbaum was the leading specialist in utilising Freedom of Information at the BBC. As the former executive producer of political programmes at Westminster, he oversaw programmes such as 'Political Thinking' with Nick Robinson, and the 'Week in Westminster' as well as editing and producing numerous political documentaries. He had a ringside seat at the BBC during the Hutton Inquiry, the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly the government advisor who

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31:52

Tim Suter, former BBC managing editor and a founding...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/06/08

Tim Suter, is a former managing editor of current affairs at the BBC, who later became a specialist adviser at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport which brought in the last media bill in 2003. That’s the one which which set up Ofcom, the UK’s media and communications regulator, of which Tim became a founding partner.He now runs his own consultancy, Perspective Associates. We discuss what the new Media Bill means, the dismantling of quotas for public services broadcasters, the remit of

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36:49

Stewart Purvis, former Ofcom regulator on GB News and...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/05/25

Stewart Purvis is probably the pre-eminent broadcast news journalist of his time. A former editor of Channel 4 news, he went on to become ITN’s Chief Executive – and then the poacher turned gamekeeper. The now Professor Purvisserved as one of the content regulators at Ofcom and oversaw standards cases involving the BBC between 2007 and 2010.In 2015 he was a member of the BBC Charter Review Advisory Group and has been a non executive director of Channel 4 among many, many other things. We discuss

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32:38

Rob Burley, former BBC editor of Live Political...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/05/18

Before leaving the BBC in 2021 Rob Burley had worked with all the big political beasts at the Beeb - Andrew Neil, Jeremy Paxman, Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel - and as editor of Live Political Programmes oversaw 'The Andrew Marr Show', 'Politics Live' and 'Westminster Hour'.We discuss his recently published book called - 'Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying To Me' – which details everything from the art of the political interview, to revelations about the BBC's relationship with government and coverage

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38:20

Tom Mangold, former BBC investigative journalist...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/05/11

Tom Mangold is one of Britain's top investigative journalists. From Fleet Street he moved to the BBC in 1964 and became a war correspondent covering numerous conflicts including Vietnam, Northern Ireland and Afghanistan.He then found himself at Panorama for 26 years making over 100 documentaries. He looks back on a career where he cultivated the Krays, became friends with Stephen Ward who was at the heart of the Profumo scandal and dissects the challenges that investigative journalism is

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35:04

John Bridcut, highly acclaimed documentary maker on...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/05/04

John Bridcut has produced highly regarded documentaries throughout his career on a range of subjects including ‘How the BBC began’, the British monarchy - encompassing the Queen's coronation, Prince Philip, and King Charles - as well as documentaries on classical composers such as Elgar, Delius, and Britten. His latest documentary, focusing on British composer Sir Michael Tippett, is set to air in June on BBC 2. John also authored a report in 2007 for the BBC on the safeguarding of impartiality in

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35:13

Simon McCoy, former BBC presenter on the merger of...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/04/27

Simon McCoy was known as a regular presenter on BBC Breakfast, News 24 and latterly the BBC News at One.Before joining the BBC he was also royal correspondent at Sky in the early nineties covering the break down of Diana and Charles' marriage. After 17 years at the corporation Simon joined GB news for just under a year in 2021.We discuss royal coverage, impartiality, GB News, Richard Sharp's position as BBC chair and the merger of the BBC's two news channels."When the BBC is under such pressure,

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27:07

Marcus Ryder from the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/04/20

The draft Media bill was finally published at the end of March - what does it mean for diversity and the public service broadcasters? We discuss language, data and the loosening of regulations with Marcus Ryder, previously head of BBC Scotland Current Affairs Programmes who is now the head of External Consultancies at the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity.“I think that it is in BBC, Channel 4’s and other public service broadcasters’ interests for them to tighten regulation, because if

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31:33

Peter Taylor, part 2. The veteran BBC journalist...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/04/06

On the run up to the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor veteran BBC journalist reveals his own personal story as a journalist covering Ireland for over 50 years and voices his concerns for the future of journalism."Sadly, when I look at the people, my colleagues who've left the BBC, the BBC is in danger of losing that critical level of experience which we pass on, we veterans want to pass on, are eager to pass on, to the next generation and the next generation but

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31:29

Peter Taylor, veteran BBC journalist discusses his...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/03/31

One of Britain’s finest reporters Peter Taylor, with numerous books, documentaries and awards spanning a career of over 50 years, discusses his latest BBC 2 documentary based on his book published this week; 'Operation chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland'. "We spenta couple of weeks just living inside the Maze prison. We were locked up with prisoners and intalking to them, it was quite clear that they were thinking beyond the so-called armed struggle."Support

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31:51

Jamie Angus, former director of BBC World Service and...

Roger Bolton"s Beeb Watch ·

2023/03/23

Jamie Angus left the BBC last July after a stellar career involving editing the Today programme and Newsnight. He later became director of the World Service, running the teams which produce news in 42 languages to a weekly audience of 500 million around the world. Now he's chief operating officer at Al Arabiya news channel in the United Arab Emirates and is moving into the space left by the axing of BBC Arabic radio. We discuss cuts in the World Service and news, impartiality, the future funding of

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