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Mary Hockaday, ex-Controller BBC World Service: Funding and Editorial Independence at the World Service
Season 10 · Episode 6

Mary Hockaday, ex-Controller BBC World Service: Funding and Editorial Independence at the World Service

Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch · Kate Dixon

October 9, 202531m 40s

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Show Notes

Mary Hockaday, former Controller of BBC World Service, discusses the future of the BBC World Service amid funding pressures and political challenges, the debate over government and defence funding, the challenges of budget cuts, and the global influence and value of the World Service.

 

“For me, the most important thing in all of this is almost wherever the money comes from, that the principles of independence, editorial independence, are absolutely sacrosanct.”


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