welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. where do you get your news from? do you trust it to be true? for many of us, the answers to these questions are changing. social media is an increasingly dominant source of information. long established news sources, like us at the bbc, are in a fight for audiences and, yes, for trust, too. my guest, david dimbleby, became, in the course of a long broadcasting career, the face and voice of the bbc on the biggest occasions, from elections to royal ceremonial. can his journalistic values survive in a world where opinion so often trumps truth?
and britain is the first example of it. began in 1926? 100 years ago. yes. but you say it serves everyone, and in a way. no, its aim is to serve everyone. i didn t say it does. of course, there are people who feel they re not served properly. the bbc s role, as i see it, i mean, unlike almost any other broadcaster i can think of, since its onlyjob is to serve the people who fund it and indeed to serve, through the world service, other people around the world. since that s its onlyjob, it s acutely sensitive to people who are excluded. so, it s always trying to adjust itself so that it does represent all opinion in the uk. and that s unlike any other broadcaster. interesting you say that because i wonder if you feel, if you were setting out on your broadcasting career today, whether you d find it as easy to become the top dog at the bbc
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and tents are for people in pakistan still homeless after a devastating flood. i will report on the bigger storms of the year and look at what happened after weather disasters strike. i am at raf coningsby, not only a place close to my heart in that it is where i began my broadcasting career but to british meteorology, this july at this stevenson screen, we recorded the uk highest temperature of 40.3 celsius. it has been a day of record breaking temperatures across the uk. more than a0 celsius for the first time. july the 19th, the uk s hottest day and as temperatures soared after the driest start to the year
so, it s always trying to adjust itself so that it does represent all opinion in the uk. and that s unlike any other broadcaster. interesting you say that because i wonder if you feel, if you were setting out on your broadcasting career today, whether you d find it as easy to become the top dog at the bbc in the way that you did? no, i m sure not. but, in a funny sort of way, it s worth exploring your own past cos it s quite telling about bbc past and present. you were the son of the bbc s, perhaps, most famous presenter of the time, a man who d been a war correspondent during world war ii. he then, i think, was presenter at the coronation of queen elizabeth. he was, in many ways, the voice and the face of the bbc, as, i said earlier, you were to become. it feels a bit nepotistic that you ended up doing pretty much the same job that your dad did. what s nepotism? how do you define it? nepotism is when your family sort of pulls strings. what, my dead father? my father, who died in 1965,