{"id":16077,"date":"2022-07-22T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=211911"},"modified":"2022-07-22T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T17:07:08","slug":"the-bbc-at-100-scandals-break","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-bbc-at-100-scandals-break\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC at 100: scandals break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Matt Elton\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 22 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In the penultimate episode of our series marking the centenary of the BBC, David Hendy looks back at some of the scandals surrounding the corporation across the past two decades \u2013 both new and historical \u2013 and what they tell us about its relationship with politics and the public.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-211911-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/HistoryExtra20220722-5fdc347.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/HistoryExtra20220722-5fdc347.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/HistoryExtra20220722-5fdc347.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>David Hendy is the author of <em>The BBC: A People\u2019s History<\/em> (Profile Books, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-bbc-a-people-s-history\/9781781255254&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/BBC-Peoples-History-David-Hendy\/dp\/1781255253?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; 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