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Robin Aitken, former BBC journalist on Impartiality, Internal Culture, and Trust in the BBC

Robin Aitken, former BBC journalist on Impartiality, Internal Culture, and Trust in the BBC

Update: 2025-09-16
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Robin Aitken is a former BBC journalist, author, and contributor to The Daily Telegraph. In this episode, he discusses his chapter in the book "The BBC: After the licence fee?"


We discuss the BBC’s internal culture, its approach to impartiality, the representation of religious perspectives, its coverage of events such as Brexit, audience trust in the BBC and factors affecting licence fee payments.


“There is an assumption in the BBC, broadly speaking, that public is always better than private; that a social democratic government anywhere in the world is always going to be preferable to what the BBC often terms ‘Far Right,’ and the way that they use those terms is itself such a giveaway.”


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Robin Aitken, former BBC journalist on Impartiality, Internal Culture, and Trust in the BBC

Robin Aitken, former BBC journalist on Impartiality, Internal Culture, and Trust in the BBC