"BBC's pomposity is beyond belief" | David Starkey Talks... to "fallen" BBC presenter Andrew Gold

To some extent the BBC made my reputation. In the 1990s, I ventured into the vaults of BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place, the building itself a testament to Britain's nation-shaping public architecture in the early 20th century, on a weekly basis to record The Moral Maze; where I was encouraged by the brilliant producers of the BBC's religious affairs output to be as radical and transgressive as I liked. That BBC is gone forever. It's been replaced by an organisation staffed with a new generation of so-called journalists who believe it's their job to enforce progressive orthodoxy, even if that means actually misleading the public.

This attitude has finally brought the organisation which harboured it to the brink of collapse, as it has butted brutally up against the one force in the world powerful enough to stand up to it: President Donald Trump. His lawsuit, though may appear almost comical in its grandiosity, raises unprecedented problems for our public broadcaster, and only a radical rethink of how the institution operates will preserve it. So far, I've seen no evidence that such a rethink is underway.

Andrew Gold, who many of you will know as a gifted podcaster and someone who has in the past interviewed me, has his own history with the BBC. His experience illuminates the extent to which the organisation, funded by all of us, became captured by a cabal which was determined to impose left-wing doctrine.

If you enjoy this conversation, be sure to pop over to @andrewgoldheretics as well, where Andrew is busily challenging mainstream orthodoxies and woolly-headed thinking!

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