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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"I don't want anybody to read the book and think, 'oh well, thank God, that's all awful, but it can't happen here." Thoughtful and sparky conversation with @stephensackur.bsky.social on Beeb Watch this week. 🎧 Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Two great cover-ups. Everybody in Washington knows! says Rick Wilson, 30 years a Republican strategist, now one of Trump's loudest critics and "the Cassandra of the Republican Party." Another great convo with @peteryork.bsky.social 🎧 Full conversation: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The industry, I think, would have welcomed a change because Lisa Nandy is not seen as being particularly effective, I don't think, and I do think that's a concern." Eye opening interview with @jakekanter.bsky.social this week. 🎧 Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“What I'm less attracted to is the idea that any old story that you happen to bung on the internet & someone watches for or clicks on for three seconds counts as meaningful reach for the BBC, & they're too obsessed by that.” Gt conversation - Roger Mosey, ex editor of Today & Head of BBC TV News.

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peter York's Culture Wars House Party is back for a new series - Hugo Drochon and Prof Joe Uscinski on the Great Replacement theory, and why "conspiracy theories are often for losers" 🎧 Full ep: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Unless you involve the public in that debate & give the British public a serious and meaningful space to talk about the relationship they want with the media.. you're never going to have genuine public democratic support for public media." Dr Tom Chivers @mediareformuk.bsky.social

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"They have decimated their coverage of politics in the last 10 years… If you're a serious public service broadcaster, that should be one of your core things, and not spending millions of pounds on programmes like Match of the Day.” Fascinating and fun listen with @iaindale.bsky.social on Beeb Watch

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"That doesn't make them wrong." Ex-BBC & ITV chairman Michael Grade — who also just finished chairing Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator — argues different outlets can have different editorial priorities without either side being biased. 🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🇬🇧 What would British fascism look like? Great convo 👇 @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social argues that American myths, British nostalgia and white supremacy are more tightly linked than we like to think. 🎧@peteryork.bsky.social Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"If the rationale for the ITV deal is we can't survive unless we are owned by a larger company, what does that mean for the survival of Channel 4?" A prescient point from an excellent interview with Prof Cathy Johnson of @universityofleeds.bsky.social who also unpacks the latest media green paper.

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Kate Ferguson @wordsaredeeds.bsky.social of @ibvprev.bsky.social went from genocide prevention in Rwanda to noticing the same warning signs here at home. She's got a "dread trio" of threats -one unthinkable a year ago. 🎧 @peteryork.bsky.social Culture Wars House Party podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"I think there really could be something quite exciting to be done in that space, but it does require the BBC to have a little bit of a shift in mind set." A refreshing take on local journalism from Jonathan Heawood of @publicinterestnews.org.uk 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈 @peteryork.bsky.social eteryork.bsky.social talks to @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social about 5 decades of culture wars - & what the Supreme Court ruling really means for trans rights. “Things are not over by a long shot.” 🎧 Peter York's Culture Wars House party podcast podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Why is the radical right doing so well? Because they've been losing for 50 years. Prof Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social explains in the latest Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast with @peteryork.bsky.social 🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Who really runs Britain — and why do they insist they're just ordinary? Great fun convo withLSE profs @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social authors of Born to Rule with @peteryork.bsky.social on his Peter York's Culture Wars House Party Podcast 🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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beebwatch.bsky.social @beebwatch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“If you’re only making the case in places that you feel are friendly and supportive, you’re by your very nature just talking to a certain audience." Ex BBC Dir of Communications John Shield picked up from my Beeb Watch podcast. 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"There were things like crew & participants telling us about the use of alcohol, for instance, which was something we had assumed since 2019 had been pretty much banned, if not really strictly controlled...That was a real surprise to us". @recaretv.bsky.social 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Two Good Egg guests. One weekend. Two big stories. Great conversations 👇 Gabriel Gatehouse on the Observer's cover: did the CIA poison Gordon Banks in 1970? 🎙️ podfollow.com/peter-yorks-... @RobBurl's BBC/trans investigation in UnHerd more coverage in the Times. 🎙️ podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

How the Weird Stuff Took Over Politics Excellent convo on with @peteryork.bsky.social and Gabriel Gatehouse (ex‑BBC, The Coming Storm). They discuss QAnon, Epstein, UFOs/UAPs, & what supposedly “weird” stories reveal about how power works in US and UK politics. 🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“If you cut lots of jobs and lose lots of journalists with experience, there's a price to be paid..... Fran Unsworth was the author of this policy, ...and she says it's contributed to the problem ... she herself says that, and she devised it.” Great convo with @robburl.bsky.social

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The brilliant Bonnie Greer - you hang on every word. @peteryork.bsky.social talks to Bonnie Greer – Chicago‑born playwright, critic and public intellectual – talks Trump, power, “my stuff” politics & why she thinks we’re living in a post‑America era. 🎧👇 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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beebwatch.bsky.social @beebwatch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Great pick up from my interview with @adamboulton.bsky.social on Beeb Watch this week. Listen to the full interview here: podfollow.com/beebwatch www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

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GB News should lose its licence, says ex-Sky News editor Adam Boulton

Veteran broadcaster accuses channel of ‘clear violations’ of Ofcom’s due impartiality rules

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"I certainly think that the whole question of elected politicians presenting current affairs and news programmes, the so called 'presen-tician', is something which it could fairly easily be outlawed." "And you would like it outlawed?" "Yes. I think it should be outlawed." 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"Ofcom has let it go so far, the elastic band has stretched so far that I would say perhaps it's snapped." Chris Banatvala on GB News and due impartiality. 🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“Do. Not. Trust. Us. This is the end of the affair.” Historian @marcishore.bsky.social joins @peteryork.bsky.social to talk fear, history and the US moral abyss – from fascism and shameless politics to Trump, Putin, Ukraine and Europe’s dangerous denial. 🎧 Listen: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Has the tide turned? Great interview 👉 @peteryork.bsky.social Peter York’s Culture Wars House Party podcast @davidaaronovitch.bsky.social discusses conspiracy thinking, the international culture‑war right, the BBC’s future – and why, it’s so hard to stay reasonable. 🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

“Ofcom’s negligence is one of the biggest threats to the integrity of British democracy right now” Powerful interview with @liambyrnemp.bsky.social who describes GB News as ‘pretty close’ to being the broadcasting arm of the Reform Party. 🎧 This is a must listen interview: podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Revelation after revelation with Prof @dannydorling.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk on @peteryork.bsky.social Culture Wars House party podcast this week – on Brexit myths, Britain’s place at the top of Europe’s inequality league, and how to fight the good fight. 🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Peter York's Culture Wars House Party

“PETER YORK’S CULTURE WARS HOUSE PARTY” podcast is all about Peter’s cultural preoccupations which range from how political Culture Wars are waged, to the reputational currency of clever celebrities, ...

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beebwatch.bsky.social @beebwatch.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

With Lisa Nandy announcing a permanent Royal Charter for the BBC, is the charter review a real consultation – or a done deal? Prof Lee Edwards @mediareformuk.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social discusses the speech, the charter “consultation” & public accountability. 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"I think if impartiality matters, ..then you need to think really hard about the values that you want in the journalism from whatever source it is. And I think Ofcom, looking at that and being tough-minded about it, would be a good thing." Wide ranging and thoughtful discussion with Tony Hall.

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"These regulatory bodies are falling short." Says Rizwana Hamid, director of Centre for Media Monitoring. "Islamophobia is rampant, and it's rife within politics, within the media, within society, nobody blinks an eyelid." 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Another riveting interview from @peteryork.bsky.social with Michael Wolff, bestselling chronicler of Trump and Murdoch, who explains why he now calls Trump’s second term “a heartbreaking year and a frightening year.” 🎧 Listen to the full episode: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"I've got to say I feel less and less comfortable about it, with the benefit of a few years away from the BBC." A very frank conversation with Jamie Angus on Beeb Watch this week on Iranian coverage and the future of the BBC World Service. 🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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beebwatch.bsky.social @beebwatch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Millions in the UK are already digitally excluded: 🔹 3–4 million lack affordable access 🔹 10–11 million lack basic digital skills Yet we’re talking about online‑only TV (and maybe radio) by 2034. Elizabeth Anderson, Digital Poverty Alliance explains the implications. 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Philosopher of fascism Jason Stanley left Yale for Toronto to, as he says, “spit the truth”. Is the US “a white supremacist nation”? Why does it have sky‑high incarceration yet historic low violent crime? Find out with @peteryork.bsky.social on his podcast. 🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"This is a medium that really hasn't been devastated by the rise of online media in all its forms, and the rise of streamers, etc, etc. Radio is still in fantastic health." Good to be sharing some positive media news for a change from Phil Riley, CEO Boom Radio. 🎧https://podfollow.com/beebwatch

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beebwatch.bsky.social @beebwatch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Has Trump just hit a turning point? I spoke to Rob Crilly (ex–Chief US Correspondent at the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail Online) about Minnesota, the media, public broadcasters under pressure – and whether US democracy is as fragile as it looks. 🎧 full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch

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beebwatch.bsky.social @beebwatch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Sir Max Hastings takes on the right-wing press, BBC’s future, and media silence in a must-listen interview. 🎧 Listen to the full interview: podfollow.com/beebwatch #Media #PressFreedom #BBC #SirMaxHastings #Podcast

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"To me, the number one thing is no more political appointees on the BBC board." Unpacking the green paper on the BBC with Prof Patrick Barwise. Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch

Roger Bolton, formerly presenter of BBC Radio 4's 'Feedback' launches his very first podcast. Free from the constraints of broadcasting on the BBC, with a few more opinions and casting his net a ...

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

“We really think that it's time to kind of transform the governance mechanisms.” “Our consensus is that political independence right now is absolutely crucial." co-author Prof Georgina Born @ucl.ac.uk 🎧 Listen to the full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch

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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

"we're going to be coming up on two decades of people thinking the future is going to be worse for their kids... this is not a natural state for people to be in" @bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the latest episode of @peteryork.bsky.social 's Culture Wars House Party podcast

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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🔊 "a real problem between the generations is not conflict, it's separation. We are living much more separately by generations than we have at any time in human history" @bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the latest episode of @peteryork.bsky.social's Culture Wars House Party podcast

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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🔊 "there's very little overlap now in the attitudes between Republicans and Democrats... you can predict more and more of social attitudes in the US just by knowing your party identity" @bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the latest episode of @peteryork.bsky.social's Culture Wars House Party podcast

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

“Last year, more journalists were killed than have ever been killed since the CPJ (Committee for the Protection of Journalists) started documenting this in 1992. Sadly, this year is not going to be very different.” 🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

"It has huge ramifications for what happens to the BBC. It has huge importance for Channel 4." A must listen.

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"I think the real serious decline, is in local journalism & regional journalism, particularly local newspapers.. the possibility that you might be in the local rag next week because of something naughty ....I think actually played quite an important role in the community & keeping things together."

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

"It could be plausibly argued that Diana would be alive today—64 years old, the grandmother of five kids—had the BBC, in April of 1996 or thereabouts, told her what they knew." Great listen. 🎧https://podfollow.com/beebwatch

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

10 Million homes do not have pay-TV of any kind. Another 3.6 million homes use Freeview on at least two sets where they also have pay-TV i.e. are regular users of Freeview. Source: Everyone TV, the company behind Freely, Freeview and Freesat. How would they react to Nigel Farage's plans for the BBC?

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Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

“Who do you think is doing the strategising? Point me to anybody in his administration who actually knows what they're doing, has any competence—even for evil purposes—on these domains.” Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist on Trump's economic policy. Fascinating listen.

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Peter York's Culture Wars House Party

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