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,
“... by threatening to cut or curtail its External Services broadcasting. The director general, Ian Jacob, rightly sensing that the country was divided on the issue, stood by the corporation’s commitment to even-handed reporting. Once American pressure had forced Eden into a humiliating withdrawal from the Canal Zone, the threat evaporated, but the ... ”