{"id":17481,"date":"2022-08-23T12:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=214313"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:09:23","slug":"the-bbc-at-100-what-can-history-tell-us-about-its-future","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-bbc-at-100-what-can-history-tell-us-about-its-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC at 100: what can history tell us about its future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Matt Elton\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 23 August 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 final instalment of our series marking the BBC\u2019s centenary, David Hendy explores what the corporation\u2019s history can tell us about its future. He spoke to Matt Elton about the challenges that the corporation has faced in the 21st century \u2013 and what looking back at its past can tell us about its future.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-214313-1&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\/08\/BBC8-612ad56.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/08\/BBC8-612ad56.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/08\/BBC8-612ad56.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>David Hendy is the author of <em>The BBC: A People\u2019s History<\/em> (Profile Books, 2022).\u00a0<\/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; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-bbc\/david-hendy\/9781781255254&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Elton Published: Tuesday, 23 August 2022 at 12:00 am In the final instalment of our series marking the BBC\u2019s centenary, David Hendy explores what the corporation\u2019s history can tell us about its future. 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