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The #BBC has sought to ‘inform, educate and entertain’ for a century. Facing an uncertain future, what impact has it had on the past?

⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free

www.historytoday.com/archive/head...
What Influence Has the BBC Had on History?
www.historytoday.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Amazing semi-lost letter from Theodore Roosevelt denouncing paid critics of antitrust and "law-defying corporations of immense wealth who ... expect[] others to treat them beyond and above any possible check from law"
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte - Theodore Roosevelt Center
President Roosevelt congratulates Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte for his speech at Chicago, ...
www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Someone somewhere will ALWAYS notice.
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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very very good piece

and yes, like the bank of England, the BBC now needs to be totally independent from any particular government, with its own independent board to which it is accountable for upholding its own values
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
A behind-the-scenes tour of CNN's facilities from the channel's second hour on the air on June 1, 1980:
youtu.be/t2Zk73wkerg?...
CNN Day One - The First 2 Hours - June 1 1980
YouTube video by Vincent Dawn
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The dawn of the Global Village; the first live worldwide satellite broadcast from 1962 with Walter Cronkite leading off the coverage:

youtu.be/0IX7vC4Ts_A?...
First Live Worldwide Television Broadcast via Telstar Satalite
YouTube video by telstar
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
How Willis Conover and the Voice of America used jazz to reach millions of young people in postwar Europe (from 𝘊𝘰𝘤𝘢-𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 by Reinhold Wagnleitner):
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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🔴'BBC Bias’ Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants

The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President, reports @nafeez.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Sam Knight in the @newyorker.com on the latest BBC crisis

(Including some thoughts from me)
The Mess at the BBC Will Never End
The public broadcaster desperately needs the public to believe in it. Between its own stumbles and ceaseless right-wing hostility, it is in danger of losing its way.
www.newyorker.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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“Trump is a grifter The BBC must not pay him a dime” Former BBC top executive Pat Younge on the crisis at Broadcasting House www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...
‘Trump is a grifter. The BBC must not pay him a dime’
Under fire from powerful enemies at home and abroad, how can the broadcasting service save itself?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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So damning and so dangerous. We've long known that Fox News is essentially a right wing propaganda outlet that profits from scaring and enraging its audience, but its symbiotic relationship with the Trump regime takes it to a whole new level.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.

To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.
They were promised a lifeline to 'graduate' from poverty. Then it was taken away
Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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If the US + Canada would only get out of the car-freeways rut, we'd find there's a world of solutions out there to gridlock, congestion, and commuting frustration.

Some are contained in North America's past—like the Interurbans that linked cities to suburbs, countryside, and other communities.
Interurban Nations.
A requiem for North America's overhead wires, and the tracks that led into the woods.
www.highspeed.blog
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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All the people “afraid” of Zohran Mamdani are racist as hell.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Need some positive news?

Around the world, a passenger rail renaissance is well under way.

I document the train-love in my weekly newsletter HIGH SPEED.

🚅🧵
March 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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When your streetcar turns into a train: a look at the Karlsruhe Model, which runs tram-trains (which also carry cargo) through cities, but also deep into suburbs and countryside.

worksinprogress.co/issue/turnin...
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Excited for you all to hear my conversation with @historyonfilm.bsky.social about Edward R. Murrow, Joe McCarthy, and GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK!
November 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The first 36 minutes of U.S. election night coverage '68 as seen on Austrian television (late at night Central European Time): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv0N... @ichinoy.bsky.social
US Wahl Archiv Wahlnacht 1968 ORF1968
YouTube video by floatingfeelings
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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How can we use SOUND to enhance story-telling?

A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.

To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
Masterclass: Writing with an Ear to Sound with David Hendy - Gladstone's Library
Writing with an Ear to Sound – a writing Masterclass with David Hendy 10.30am-3pm, Saturday 17th January 2026 – save the date! Join the...
www.gladstoneslibrary.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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On this day in 1936:

The start of the BBC’s regular TV service from Alexandra Palace.

See programme archive, oral history interviews - and some amazing images from those pioneering days:
The Birth of TV
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Late fall in my late mother's native Bela Krajina region of Slovenia:
November 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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