Beebology
Stefan Collini: What next for the BBC?, 21 April 2022
The BBC: A People’s History
by David Hendy.
Profile, 638 pp., £25, January,978 1 78125 525 4 Show More
by David Hendy.
Profile, 638 pp., £25, January,
This Is the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain? 1922-2022
by Simon J. Potter.
Oxford, 288 pp., £20, April,978 0 19 289852 4 Show More
by Simon J. Potter.
Oxford, 288 pp., £20, April,
“... the tiredest of tropes by damning the BBC’s coverage as the work of ‘traitors in our midst’. Norman Tebbit’s much quoted tirade against the corporation – the ‘insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the Sixties’ – betrayed a shaky grasp of ... ”