19 December 2020 • 6:00am
Meghan Markle is to present a series of podcasts with Prince Harry, featuring ‘stories of hope and compassion from inspirational guests’
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God bless Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. I’m sure they mean well. But if I have to listen to their new podcast, I fear my toes will curl so violently that surgeons will be helpless to straighten them out again.
The promotional trailer is painful enough – with its earnest promises to share “stories of hope and compassion from inspirational guests”, and to “bring forward different perspectives and voices that perhaps you haven’t heard before” to help the people of the world “find common ground”.
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BBC accused of comedy bias as research shows 75pc of slots are taken up by anti-Brexit, left-leaning comedians
Tim Davie, the BBC director-general, has acknowledged that the BBC’s comedy output is seen as too one-sided
12 December 2020 • 9:42pm
Mock the Week
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The BBC has been accused of flagrant bias after new figures show three-quarters of comedy slots on its main channels and airwaves are given to Left-leaning or anti-Brexit comics.
Over the month of November, the corporation featured 141 comedians across 364 slots on television and radio shows including Have I Got News For You on BBC One, Mock the Week on BBC Two and Just a Minute on Radio 4.