Steven Barnett discusses BBC chair Samir Shah’s speech on Beeb Watch podcast

Prof Steven Barnett joins Roger Bolton’s Beeb Watch to discuss BBC Chair Samir Shah’s inaugural speech. The conversation explores what devolving, democratising, and depoliticising means, loosening regulation, re-evaluating the roles and remits of other public service broadcasters, and alternative funding models.*

Barnett: “I’m not sure a permanent charter is the way to go, but I think some kind of independent body to whom the responsibility is devolved for making funding decisions and for appointing the BBC chair, I would incidentally add the Ofcom chair, which is accountable to Parliament but is out of the control of government. I think those are really important changes that are necessary.”

Listen to the full episode here.

*Information adapted from episode notes.

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