Kate Dixon
@katefdixon.bsky.social
Founder, Good Egg Productions | Creator of Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch Podcast (@BeebRoger) | views my own
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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.
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🔹 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
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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
🔹 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
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.
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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.
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February 10, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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-...
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.
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"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.
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Good to be sharing some positive media news for a change from Phil Riley, CEO Boom Radio.
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Which “heritage” media is consumed by 90% of the population?
In the latest Beeb Watch we talk to Phil Riley radio exec about:
🎧 BBC funding, BBC Sounds & a possible “radio licence”
📺 The 2034 DTT switch‑off & what it means for radio
🏙️ BBC Local Radio & local journalism
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In the latest Beeb Watch we talk to Phil Riley radio exec about:
🎧 BBC funding, BBC Sounds & a possible “radio licence”
📺 The 2034 DTT switch‑off & what it means for radio
🏙️ BBC Local Radio & local journalism
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February 5, 2026 at 9:58 AM
"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
Good to be sharing some positive media news for a change from Phil Riley, CEO Boom Radio.
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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
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
January 29, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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
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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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
🎧 Listen to the full interview: podfollow.com/beebwatch
#Media #PressFreedom #BBC #SirMaxHastings #Podcast
January 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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
🎧 Listen to the full interview: podfollow.com/beebwatch
#Media #PressFreedom #BBC #SirMaxHastings #Podcast
"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
Unpacking the green paper on the BBC with Prof Patrick Barwise.
Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch
December 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"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
Unpacking the green paper on the BBC with Prof Patrick Barwise.
Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch
“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
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“Our consensus is that political independence right now is absolutely crucial." co-author Prof Georgina Born @ucl.ac.uk
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What can the BBC learn from public broadcasters around the world? 🌍 Authors of the British Academy bsky.app/profile/brit... report break down the evidence from international comparisons—and what it means for the BBC’s future.
Curious what works best?
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#BBC #BritishAcademy
Curious what works best?
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#BBC #BritishAcademy
December 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
“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
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“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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"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
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the latest episode of @peteryork.bsky.social 's Culture Wars House Party podcast
December 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"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
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the latest episode of @peteryork.bsky.social 's Culture Wars House Party podcast
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🔊 "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
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the latest episode of @peteryork.bsky.social's Culture Wars House Party podcast
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🔊 "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
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the latest episode of @peteryork.bsky.social's Culture Wars House Party podcast
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🔊 "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
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the latest episode of @peteryork.bsky.social's Culture Wars House Party podcast
December 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🔊 "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
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social on the latest episode of @peteryork.bsky.social's Culture Wars House Party podcast
“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
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
Great chat with Jon Williams—Exec Director of Rory Peck Trust, former BBC & ABC News editor—about the challenges freelance journalists face, rising risks, media pressures, lawsuits in journalism, and who should be the next Director General of the BBC.
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
“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
🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
"It has huge ramifications for what happens to the BBC. It has huge importance for Channel 4." A must listen.
A transformative moment may be approaching for UK broadcasting. Dan Thomas, Global Media Editor at the Financial Times, discusses the potential implications of a Sky/ITV deal for the BBC, Channel 4, and the wider media landscape.
🎧 Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch
🎧 Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"It has huge ramifications for what happens to the BBC. It has huge importance for Channel 4." A must listen.
"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."
From the crisis at the BBC to the rise of Reform and the fate of local news, Michael Crick brings decades of insight into the future of British journalism and politics.
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#CultureWars #UKPolitics
🎧 Listen now: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
#CultureWars #UKPolitics
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
"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."
"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.
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🎙️New episode. Author Andy Webb (“Dianarama: The Betrayal of Princess Diana”) discusses his investigation into the BBC Panorama interview, Martin Bashir’s controversial methods, and how BBC actions may have shaped Princess Diana’s fate.
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#PrincessDiana #BBC #Dianarama
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#PrincessDiana #BBC #Dianarama
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"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.
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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?
To Nigel Farage: 2021 BBC Value for Audiences report: "Taken together, a bundle of subscriptions providing advertising-free high-quality services comparable with those offered by the BBC across video, audio+news would cost over £400 per year" Subscription=end of universal #BBC public service.
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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?
“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.
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“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.
"It’s corrupt. It invites corruption. We have to take all public appointments out of political hands, and that includes the non-executive directors of the BBC." So says a former BBC Trustee Richard Ayre An important interview this week on Beeb Watch.
“‘It invites corruption.’ Richard Ayre, former BBC executive, raises serious concerns about political influence over BBC appointments and what this means for public trust and governance.
Full conversation on our latest podcast episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
#BBC #Governance #PublicTrust
Full conversation on our latest podcast episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch
#BBC #Governance #PublicTrust
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"It’s corrupt. It invites corruption. We have to take all public appointments out of political hands, and that includes the non-executive directors of the BBC." So says a former BBC Trustee Richard Ayre An important interview this week on Beeb Watch.
"Skydance Paramount CBS - they own Channel 5. CBS is actually the BBC News partner at the moment. So if there's any shift in CBS News values, what does that mean for the BBC? This idea that the BBC is hermetically sealed and is in its own world? That's for the birds."
🎙️ New episode: Patrick Younge, former BBC Chief Creative Officer & ITV Studios board member, discusses BBC Panorama bias allegations, the impact of media consolidation, charter reform, & what’s next for PSB in his British Broadcasting Challenge report.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Skydance Paramount CBS - they own Channel 5. CBS is actually the BBC News partner at the moment. So if there's any shift in CBS News values, what does that mean for the BBC? This idea that the BBC is hermetically sealed and is in its own world? That's for the birds."
“If your funding is cut, what happens is it puts you under a lot more pressure in your work, but also it just smashes morale at the organisation, and it makes people less self confident.” Another thought provoking interview with @peteryork.bsky.social and @tommills.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“If your funding is cut, what happens is it puts you under a lot more pressure in your work, but also it just smashes morale at the organisation, and it makes people less self confident.” Another thought provoking interview with @peteryork.bsky.social and @tommills.bsky.social
"I think actually, on the whole, it's a good thing, you know, that you have something like GB News, as long as, again, you keep them within the Ofcom bounds, which are really, really useful, because it is another point of view." Fascinating interview with Matt Frei.
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🎧https://podfollow.com/beebwatch
MattFrei of @channel4news.bsky.social talks about his The Media Society @rtsmedia.bsky.social Steve Hewlett Lecture:
🇺🇸 The state of US democracy — whether it could happen here
📺 BBC’s Gaza coverage
📰 The future of traditional news
💬 GB News, Trump & media polarisation
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🇺🇸 The state of US democracy — whether it could happen here
📺 BBC’s Gaza coverage
📰 The future of traditional news
💬 GB News, Trump & media polarisation
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October 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
"I think actually, on the whole, it's a good thing, you know, that you have something like GB News, as long as, again, you keep them within the Ofcom bounds, which are really, really useful, because it is another point of view." Fascinating interview with Matt Frei.
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🎧https://podfollow.com/beebwatch
"My interpretation of the rules... Sir Keir Starmer could potentially present BBC Newsnight, and it would be within the Ofcom rules. Of course, the BBC wouldn't allow it, but I think it would be permissible." Thoughtful interview with @stephencushion.bsky.social
Ofcom keeps the rules the same — but the game has changed
Prof @stephencushion.bsky.social on Ofcom’s decision & what it means for impartial broadcasting. Are we heading for more opinion-led TV and radio?
🎧 Full episode podfollow.com/beebwatch
#Ofcom #BBC #Impartiality #Media #BeebWatchPodcast
Prof @stephencushion.bsky.social on Ofcom’s decision & what it means for impartial broadcasting. Are we heading for more opinion-led TV and radio?
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#Ofcom #BBC #Impartiality #Media #BeebWatchPodcast
October 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
"My interpretation of the rules... Sir Keir Starmer could potentially present BBC Newsnight, and it would be within the Ofcom rules. Of course, the BBC wouldn't allow it, but I think it would be permissible." Thoughtful interview with @stephencushion.bsky.social
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The BBC World Service reaches more than 300 million people — but should it be funded from the Defence budget? 🎙️
Mary Hockaday, fmr BBC World Service Controller discusses its future & what’s at stake for global journalism, soft power, & editorial independence.
🎧 Listen here: podfollow.com/beebwatch
Mary Hockaday, fmr BBC World Service Controller discusses its future & what’s at stake for global journalism, soft power, & editorial independence.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The BBC World Service reaches more than 300 million people — but should it be funded from the Defence budget? 🎙️
Mary Hockaday, fmr BBC World Service Controller discusses its future & what’s at stake for global journalism, soft power, & editorial independence.
🎧 Listen here: podfollow.com/beebwatch
Mary Hockaday, fmr BBC World Service Controller discusses its future & what’s at stake for global journalism, soft power, & editorial independence.
🎧 Listen here: podfollow.com/beebwatch
“If you look at the last few days, we've had the Prime Minister making a speech, of which actually Nigel Farage was his main subject... but on GB News, you've actually had the subject of the story having his own programme, to have his own view.”
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Listen in full: podfollow.com/beebwatch
October 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
“If you look at the last few days, we've had the Prime Minister making a speech, of which actually Nigel Farage was his main subject... but on GB News, you've actually had the subject of the story having his own programme, to have his own view.”
Listen in full: podfollow.com/beebwatch
Listen in full: podfollow.com/beebwatch
“The big question, I think, that people are asking now is whether we need a change in the rules regarding impartiality, or whether or not, in fact, Ofcom needs to change its interpretation of the act.” Excellent interview with Stewart Purvis
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🎧 Listen to the full episode:
October 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
“The big question, I think, that people are asking now is whether we need a change in the rules regarding impartiality, or whether or not, in fact, Ofcom needs to change its interpretation of the act.” Excellent interview with Stewart Purvis
🎧 Listen to the full episode:
🎧 Listen to the full episode:
Episode 1 of Food Britannia is out! 🥚
Proud that Good Egg Productions made this series with Max Cotton — living on a UK-only diet, £30 a week per person.
Big questions about British food, sustainability, and our connection to it. 🌾🥖🥛🌱🍲
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Proud that Good Egg Productions made this series with Max Cotton — living on a UK-only diet, £30 a week per person.
Big questions about British food, sustainability, and our connection to it. 🌾🥖🥛🌱🍲
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Food Britannia
Max Cotton finds out if we could feed ourselves entirely from what we could grow in the UK
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September 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Episode 1 of Food Britannia is out! 🥚
Proud that Good Egg Productions made this series with Max Cotton — living on a UK-only diet, £30 a week per person.
Big questions about British food, sustainability, and our connection to it. 🌾🥖🥛🌱🍲
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Proud that Good Egg Productions made this series with Max Cotton — living on a UK-only diet, £30 a week per person.
Big questions about British food, sustainability, and our connection to it. 🌾🥖🥛🌱🍲
Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...