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Bonus: The Future Of The BBC According To Its New Boss
In this bonus episode of Newscast, Laura speaks to the (relatively) new BBC Director General Matt Brittin as he looks for £500m in savings. He explains where he thinks he might find them, how he thinks the organisation should respond to changes in viewing and listening, and whether AI could or should help. A regular episode of Newscast will follow this one in your feed.
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
Comfortable if you already follow TV news
- 78% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 199 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 183 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. So, Paddy, We get to talk to lots of politicians, lots of interesting people on Newscast and we also get to talk to and hear from lots of newscasters. But there's also somebody else who've been
able to hear from this week who has a big important job at a big important institution. Yes, the people who pay our wages and the people who newscasters all pay for the BBC. Yes, you've spoken to its new boss, Matt Britton. The previous boss, Tim Davy, left after quite a lot of directors general do in the middle of a giant strumash.
So they don't always leave in the happiest way and Tim Davie, although respected but in the industry, did not leave in a very happy way. Matt Britton's arrived to run an organisation facing cuts of at least half a billion pounds. And he's come here from a tech background. So he is the first director general to come from a tech background. He ran a big chunk of Google
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