Running the BBC has become an impossible job

Running the BBC has never been easy, and its tussles with governments and other critics reach back at least three decades.
The Economist

The BBC’s boss quits over a “doctored” Trump speech

There is plenty of talk of change. Nigel Farage, Reform’s leader, says the BBC is on its “last chance”. Kemi Badenoch of the ...

The BBC has crisis in its bones – but this row is part of a concerted right-wing assault on the institutions of civil society

From Winston Churchill to Margaret Thatcher, the BBC’s entire history has been a story of one crisis after another. But after ...
The Business Standard

How the BBC began: from radio experiment to global broadcaster

From its beginnings as a commercial radio consortium to its present-day global presence, the BBC has been central to British public life. It has documented wars, royal ceremonies, and scientific achie ...
Time

Radio: Second Scot

To find its first general manager, British Broadcasting Co. Ltd. inserted a want ad in a technical paper. That was in 1922 and John Charles Walsham Reith answered the ad, got the job. Since then ...
Time

Art: Rebuilding England

In 1941 as in 1666 catastrophe is British architecture’s opportunity. When congested, slum-ridden London was leveled by the Great Fire, Britain’s greatest architect, Sir Christopher Wren, urged his ...