Good example for #BBC #BBCHardTalk 🙏
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Good example for #BBC #BBCHardTalk 🙏
"Accountability matters." --- Stephen Sackur, #BBCHardTalk
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Watching highlights from #BBCHardtalk. What a loss this programme will be.
“It's a fallacy to believe - given the tens of millions of viewers and listeners [ #BBCHARDtalk] has on the #BBC's international news channels - that there is no
longer an audience for serious, long-form journalism prepared to speak truth to power.”
25/28 “Don’t make me laugh” – Recep Tayyip #Erdoğan
In 2018,in his first #BBC interview in a decade,Turkey’s president rejected suggestions political dissent was being repressed+his country was sliding towards authoritarianism. “In #Turkey we have the ballot box,” he said. From the axed #BBCHARDTalk
2/2 🔗⬇️
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#BBC #cuts #BBCHardtalk
1/2 A terrible decision. The next BBC charter renewal consultation needs to have some bold reforms in it to free up funding for high quality stuff that matters! (See 🔗 in 2/2).
#BBC #cuts #BBCHardtalk
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From axed #BBCHARDTalk: 24/28 “You may be hard talking but you’re not listening” – Sergei Lavrov. In 2018, Russia’s foreign minister denied Moscow was involved in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal+his daughter Yulia in Salisbury. He claimed UK intelligence services may have been behind it.
“He’s worried that with the focus on live news, journalism is being reduced to “churnalism” at the expense of more studied, groundbreaking work.” Stephen Sackur to @shattenstone.bsky.social on the inexplicable, really dumb+self-defeating axing of #BBCHARDtalk, which is known+valued in 200 countries.
“[Stephen] Sackur is alarmed at the way news priorities have changed at the #BBC. “Programmes like #BBCHARDtalk , #Panorama and #Newsnight have long had a huge amount of autonomy. Increasingly there is a desire at the top of the BBC to centralise+control..”1/
“I will be a mayor who speaks out”, #EkremImamoğlu
A political rival to #Turkey's Pres #Erdogan has been detained in a corruption investigation days before he was due to be selected as a presidential candidate. In 2019 he said "The most important thing is to defend justice" On the axed #BBCHARDtalk.
#BBCHARDTalk: “Everybody will suffer…this is a constant in the history of trade” – President of the #EuropeanCentralBank
As #DonaldTrump triggers what could become a global #trade #war, #ChristineLagarde warns that “everybody will lose”. 👇🏻video
#BBCHARDTalk Coming soon: Stephen Sackur talks to #ECB boss Christine Lagarde in Frankfurt Is the #European #economy capable of withstanding #Trump 2.0? BBC is axing this show, known in 200 countries, this month.
#BBCHARDTalk Coming soon: Stephen Sackur talks to #ECB boss Christine Lagarde in Frankfurt
Is the #European #economy capable of withstanding #Trump 2.0?
BBC is axing this show, known in 200 countries, this month.
#BBCHARDTalk. Stephen Sackur: The US administration has “a vision of politics which is much closer to illiberal democracy than liberal democracy” – Dominique de Villepin
The former French prime minister has criticised Donald Trump for not defending ideas of freedom and democracy
“I got a gun… and I followed him to a restaurant” “Sorry I didn’t get him.” – #NinaSimone
The late great singer speaking to Tim Sebastian in 1999 about dealing with a record company executive who’d tried to rip her off
#BBCHARDTalk is being axed. Go figure.
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Even a person who might be described as being open to sympathy with #BBCNews CEO Deborah Turness, said her "slash and burn approach has caused chaos..and has been characterised as random rather than strategic." They added: " #BBCHARDtalk [axing] was a crass decision."
#BBCWorldService #cuts
BBC’s Stephen Sackur: I’m in #Delhi to do a series of #BBCHARDtalk interviews which should give clues to #India’s political direction in #Modi’s third term. BJP Minister, former Chief Justice and Chief Minister of Jammu+Kashmir all coming up! And time to visit some of my favourite Delhi places…
I actually like #BBCverify #unspunworld #newsnight #bbcqt then obviously #bbchardtalk which is 2nd to none then there radio station #bbc5live ect ,I just wish they would come on this #bluesky platform, I could ditch my private X account I still need for fast breaking news events #justsaying
Sarah Montague in her final #BBCHARDtalk after 30 years (it’s being axed) speaks to Basem Naim, senior #Hamas political figure. ‘Its violence+hostage-taking on 7 October led to an overwhelming #Israeli onslaught in #Gaza. A fragile ceasefire is now in place, but how can long-term peace be achieved?’
Valued in 200 countries, some where ppl can’t question those in power. Yet #BBC is axing #BBCHARDtalk bc, they say, it was made for TV. If they updated its #YouTube pages+put it on prime time TV it wd thrive, IMO.
Who wd you like to see in the hot seat with Stephen Sackur before it ends in March?
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#JimmyCarter on #BBCHARDtalk “It was a bitter disappointment to me when I was not re-elected... But [the Carter Center] has given us a very fruitful and exciting..+I would say gratifying life”
He spoke in 2002 when he won the Nobel Peace Prize 👇🏻
Coming soon - exclusive #BBCHARDTalk interview by Stephen Sackur with #NobelPeacePrize laureate #TerumiTanaka of the group Nihon Hidankyo
He survived the atomic bombing of #Nagasaki and campaigns with other survivors for #nucleardisarmament
#BBCNews #BBCHardtalk #Hardtalk
All of these far-right parties in Europe have one thing in common.
They're all fans of Vladimir Putin.
Marks and Spencer is an important British institution, like #BBCNews. Yet M&S allows its own distinct brands eg Autograph+Blue Harbour to flourish. Customers know what they provide. BBC managers are set on killing off its #BBCHARDtalk 'brand', known+valued in 200 countries. Why?
[[The trouble with Mr Munro's argument, IMO, is that axing #BBCHARDtalk is eliminating a specific space, time, presenter and programme culture that people who want its deep research+interrogative style know+value across *200* countries. It's a huge BBC 'brand'+thus an asset. 15/
Julia Bicknell said: "I know that people have used those[ #BBCHARDtalk] interviews of presidents,prime ministers,senior figures..to..challenge, charge with corruption". She was curious that a "TV decision" on a prog where people are interested in ideas, had not allowed its funding to continue.13/
He said audiences wanted live breaking news+analysis from the #BBCNewsChannel. @juliabicknell asked @jonathancmunro if he had taken into acct that #BBCHARDtalk "is a bedrock of information, research for so many other places where ppl can pick up, hold their govts to account." 12/
Mr Munro said #BBCHARDtalk runs on #BBCWorldService English audio and does get a significant range of guests, but he said it was made for the #BBCNewsChannel, which is moving away from recorded 30-minute programmes, because "audiences do not watch them."11/
@jonathancmunro said #Americast is "fantastically important+also very interesting..now. They've had numerous guests who [will play] key roles in the #Trump administration. The interviews are a different style from #BBCHARDtalk or @bbclaurak..it doesn't mean they're not good". 9/
Fran Unsworth asked if Mr Munro was "concerned" at lack of effective formats for debate at BBC, longer form interviews, discussion, "that's what the loss of #BBCHARDtalk represented..We see that there are some very entertaining things in #podcast world,but actually it's chat." 7/