After the BBC briefly removed the “Don’t mention the war episode of Fawlty Towers” and removed Little Britain from their streaming services in response to criticism by leftwing campaigners, questions ...

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One significant advantage, in my mind, of the BBC over a commercial broadcaster is that Auntie Beeb has a duty to the public rather than to its advertisers. The fact that their sole concern is not the ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Lord Reith’s Diaries provide a chilling example of the consequences of the BBC putting excessive emphasis on ...

After the war, Reith held a succession of jobs reserved for the great and the good, but never did he hold the influence of his BBC years. Instead he regularly complained of being overlooked. His ...

WHEN the Uthwatt Committee issued its interim report in July of last year, Lord Reith announced that all necessary preliminary steps towards the working out of a national plan of reconstruction and ...

Award-winning writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will deliver the landmark first BBC Reith Lecture for 2022. The iconic Reith Lectures were introduced by the BBC in 1948, in order to mark the historic ...

Having pioneered broadcast communications between Britain and the Empire, Reith was now the man in charge of linking them by air. Imperial Airways - subsidised by the government, though with private ...

LORD Reith, founder of the BBC and the Corporation’s first Director-General, pictured in May 1968, when as Lord High Commissioner he represented the Queen at the General Assembly of the Church of ...