A BBC Radio 4 programme, hosted by David Baker, and broadcast on the 18th December, asks how did Twitter, invented to allow friends to keep track of each other’s […]
Thirty years ago the British government took an almost unprecedented decision – to ban the voices of Sinn Fein and other groups in Northern Ireland associated with terrorism from […]
On Wednesday Sir Cliff Richard was awarded a minimum of £210,000 in damages after successfully suing the BBC for a serious breach of his privacy. The court ruling followed […]
On 18 April 1930, the BBC’s news announcer had nothing to communicate. “There is no news,” was the script of the 20:45 news bulletin, before piano music was played […]
Jean Seaton recently appears on the BBC World Service’s Click programme to discuss Orwell and the Future of Surveillance. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right […]
On the 7th November at Broadcasting House in London, the BBC erected a statue to the author of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, with the words “Liberty” engraved on it. Prof. Jean […]
Dr Matthew Linfoot with be a contributor on ‘Friendly Radio’, a radio documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of BBC Local Radio, being broadcast on all 40 BBC Local Radio […]
Dr Matthew Linfoot, course leader in BA Radio and Digital Production at the Westminster School of Media Art and Design, will be a guest on the The Network That […]
Steven Barnett appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire show this week to discuss the BBC being forced to reveal the wages of its highest paid talent. Steven, who has written […]
On the 9 May, 2017 Steven Barnett was featured in an article By Hannah Gannagé-Stewart and published by Broadcast Now. The article and Steven’s comments are reproduced below. Former […]