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The public broadcaster tries to cater to all views, but sometimes that’s a dangerous strategy.
The Empire Windrush, photographed a few years after its famous journey from Jamaica to Tilbury Docks.
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Windrush passengers became frequent guests on the BBC after their arrival 70 years ago.
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Wonder why Nigel Farage is on so often? Maybe because he’s very willing to turn up.
Anti-apartheid cleric Trevor Huddleston, centre, with South African liberation struggle icons Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela in 1991.
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Bishop Huddleston’s criticism of Enoch Powell’s incendiary “Rivers of blood” speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.
Forward thinker: Tessa Jowell in 2007.
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Years before ‘fake news’ was a thing, Jowell saw media education as a crucial life skill.
Flamingoes dance on a lake in South America in Planet Earth II Live in Concert.
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Planet Earth II Live fuses footage from the BBC series with live orchestration. Despite some narrative flaws, it’s a stirring call to look after our environment.
All for one?
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Big new accountancy survey highlights the limitations in UK government’s approach to pay gap reporting.
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Mostly seen in bit parts and stereotypes, Wales and its people are struggling for BBC screen time.
Aphrodite of Menophantos, Praxiteles (4th century BCE). Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome, Italy.
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Five decades on from the original series our idea of what makes civilisation has broadened.
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Hollywood has long had a problem with diversity. But thanks to services like Netflix women have found a place for their stories, compelling Tinseltown to change.
Still on top.
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Even as the news market transforms, BBC News is still the dominant force. Why?
Sean Bean plays a Catholic priest in the new BBC drama, Broken.
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The public broadcaster wants to encourage greater literacy and promote equal coverage of all faiths, including humanism.
Why let George Osborne have all the fun?
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Scotland’s former first minister has sparked outrage in the UK with his latest move.
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Five decades after its launch, BBC Local Radio faces an existential crisis and needs energy and vision to secure its future.
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Three minutes of bland and uncontroversial radio which doesn’t reflect the passion and complexity of religion.
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Gunpowder, treason and plot: historical consultants to BBC drama explain their role on the show.
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The British Breakfast Companion.
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The BBC’s dark drama reveals just how thin the veneer of middle-class respectability can be.
BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg.
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The Canary has been accused of spreading “fake news” about the BBC’s political editor. We asked two media experts to examine the issue.
Whose turn it it?
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But how does it stay relevant in the world of Spotify and iTunes?