The BBC, the British public broadcaster, is a century old. For a hundred years she has been looking for a formula to appropriate a role in the modern United Kingdom. Although that is not always easy, history shows. For one, ‘Auntie Beeb’ is impartial and ruthless, the other complains that the broadcaster is elitist and deaf to criticism. National pride lies in the firing line of a divided country. “The BBC is no longer an infallible private label.”
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A ‘left cult’ or British pride? BBC has been the compass of the British for a century
