Linear programming is the one thing the BBC has that sets it apart from the increasingly fragmented streaming landscape and it is wildly and weirdly undervalued by its executives. Curation and programming is so easy to take for granted but such a hard thing to get right.

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I'll miss Radio 4extra. I don't think its listeners will transfer to seeking the same stuff out on BBC Sounds. That's not how it works. The station introduces listeners to stuff. And I'm using the plural because individual algorithms are a lonely replacement. I don't want to be a listener (singular)

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Agree. Also worth calling out the predators, and narrating the story of why they think they can treat people this way, and why that is now going to be stopped. As Burnham knows from his Eng Lit degree, the trick is ofc finding the universal in the particular.

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I’m speaking to an online disinformation expert who is seeing evidence of MAGA manipulations across Europe, impacting the current wave of unrest

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It doesn't seem to occur to the Daily Mail that quite a few immigrants from that generation also fought in the Second World War

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