Willem Marx

Well, the head of news and the director general, the BBC's top executive, they've both stepped down over the past week.

The government's felt forced to back the BBC in Parliament with the UK's culture minister, a woman called Lisa Nandy, defending the broadcaster at a time of political polarisation and widespread misinformation.

And listeners and viewers have been expressing their anger at the idea that their money, which funds the BBC through what's known as a licence fee, could be used to pay a settlement or indeed legal damages to a foreign leader.

I spoke to Stuart Purvis, who previously ran ITN.

It's the major commercial news broadcaster in Britain, and it's thus the BBC's main rival on TV.

And he told me this criticism of the BBC was unprecedented.

Now, there are other pressures the BBC is facing for sure, Scott, in particular around its coverage of the war in Gaza.

But this is by far the biggest challenge it faces right now.

Thank you.