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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Chris Hastings

    Lisa Nandy calls for more BBC cuts as her interview is hit by glitch (opens the original)

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    Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has called on the BBC to make further cuts following a fall in the number of people willing to pay the licence fee. She made her demand on Radio 4’s flagship Today programme – moments after her interview was hit by a technical glitch which host Justin Webb blamed on money problems. Ms Nandy, who was in Salford, could not initially hear Webb in London. He told her: ‘You’ve come face-to-face with what happens when an organisation runs out of money.’ Ms Nandy replied: ‘

  2. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Chris Hastings

    Forget Ides of March, beware the 14 trigger warnings of Julius Caesar! (opens the original)

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    As a play about political betrayal that features an infamously brutal assassination, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has always required a bit of grit from its audience. But the Royal Shakespeare Company's latest production, with an all-female cast led by Dame Harriet Walter, is set to open with an astonishing 14 trigger warnings – advising less robust ticket holders about the use of plastic knives, plastic machine guns, and even fake blood. The gripping political tragedy about the ambitious Roman d

  3. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Chris Hastings

    Emma Barnett clashed with BBC over ideas 'to reduce political stories' (opens the original)

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    Emma Barnett quit Radio 4’s Today after her bid to change the direction of the flagship news programme sparked behind-the-scenes tensions, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. BBC sources say Ms Barnett, 41, the former Women’s Hour presenter, grew frustrated when her ideas about reducing the programme’s political coverage in favour of more human-interest items met with resistance. One insider said: ‘That is not what the programme is and that is not what people wanted it to do.’ The BBC has not yet mad

  4. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Chris Hastings

    Director of new British Raj drama says UK owes India trillions (opens the original)

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    The director of a controversial drama about the British Raj has called for the UK to pay India trillions in compensation for what he calls ‘200 years of enslavement’. Nikkhil Advani, director of The Revolutionaries, which dramatises the violent exploits of a group of Indian ‘freedom fighters’, said he hoped the series would ‘highlight the atrocities’ inflicted by the British. Advani admits the abhorrent behaviour of the show’s main character, based on the real-life Colonel Reginald Dyer, was por

  5. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Chris Hastings

    Anna Foster goes solo on cost-cutting Radio 4's Today programme (opens the original)

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    Radio 4's flagship Today programme was hosted by a single presenter for the first time yesterday as BBC spending cuts continue to bite. Anna Foster, who would have traditionally co-hosted the programme with a colleague, presented the two-hour show on her own in the start of a new rota, which from now on will allocate just one presenter to the weekend edition. A BBC insider who asked not to be named said: 'The BBC has decided to use its presenters more in the drive to make savings. 'The presenter

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