Podcast Episodes
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Michael Grade was chairman of the BBC and then ITV and is now heading to the House of Lords. Last week, he suggested that Channel 4 should drop its a…
15 years, 5 months ago
24/11/2010
Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief executive officer of WPP Group and one of the biggest names in advertising, talks to Steve Hewlett about Rupert Murdoch…
15 years, 5 months ago
17/11/2010
Tom Bradby tells Steve how he secured the interview with Prince William and Kate Middleton yesterday for ITV and whether there were any ground rules.…
15 years, 5 months ago
10/11/2010
This week the BBC Trust, while broadly praising BBC 4, has said the channel needs to make a bigger impact on the majority of viewers who do not watch…
15 years, 6 months ago
03/11/2010
ITV's chairman Archie Norman has said ITV's caught up in a ratings rat race, that the demand for a mass audience "drives us to the lowest common deno…
15 years, 6 months ago
27/10/2010
Conrad Black is on bail in the USA while he appeals against his convictions for fraud and obstruction of justice. If he succeeds, he may be free to r…
15 years, 6 months ago
20/10/2010
After the chancellor George Osborne's announcement on the funding of the BBC, Steve Hewlett asks BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons if this really …
15 years, 6 months ago
13/10/2010
There has been a major outbreak of collective letter writing in media land. First the one to Vince Cable about Rupert Murdoch's plan to buy the 60% o…
15 years, 7 months ago
06/10/2010
Last week the Radio Times accidentally released the names of the final twelve X Factor contestants before the programmes were broadcast, so confirmin…
15 years, 7 months ago
29/09/2010
Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State at the DCMS, has made the encouragement of local TV a flagship policy and has now given more details of how this …
15 years, 7 months ago