Mark Lawson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Now, the point is they need to explain quite urgently to their audience and to the select committee why they didn't make any of those programs.
That's really quite a big question.
But the other problem for the BBC, you know, they'll struggle to hang on to Diane Morgan, I think.
They lost Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
They've lost Louis Theroux, at least for the moment, is that their biggest risk is becoming, as we say in football, a feeder club for the streamers.
No, they've tended to keep them.
And in that original, what did the BBC do for you ad?
Those were people who'd been in the BBC 40, 50 years, you know, and that's much harder to bring off now.
Yeah, and that's why the BBC is going more and more onto YouTube.
And actually, one of the big rows with its journalists was where they said it would be TikTok first now and YouTube first.
But yeah, that was a huge moment.
But it all comes back to the same thing, which is that when in the past, and when the BBC did that original What's the BBC Ever Done For You ad,
They were the biggest beast in the jungle, to borrow from Sir David Attenborough, and they're not.
They're just not.
And YouTube was just another one.
And also, from walking with dinosaurs, we can see if you're surrounded by much bigger beasts, and there are a lot of them, then you're in trouble, which is why they're in trouble.
You can't overestimate the significance of Matt Britton saying the licence fee is a busted flush.
Clearly, that's for you in government.
So therefore, you look at what could follow, what could replace it.
Broadly, there are four alternatives, major ones.
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