and we ll catch up with lesley paterson, the triathlete who s in the running at sunday s oscars, for her screenplay of a german first world war epic. i went up to tom cruise, i said hi, i m lesley paterson, writer of all quiet on the western front. he said, i know your story. how many hours a day do you train? i said, no way?! hello. let s begin with a story that s causing a storm here in the uk, and the director general of this organisation, the bbc, tim davie, has apologised for widespread disruption to bbc sports programming but says he won t resign. a number of tv and radio programmes were taken off air after presenters and pundits walked out in support of gary lineker. the former footballer and presenter of match of the day was taken off the programme after the bbc deemed he d breached the corporation s editorial guidelines on impartiality. with more, here s our sports editor, dan roan. on any normal saturday, gary lineker would have been preparing to host football
Made this antelope mistake for the Awards Ceremony envelope. Itjust seems that suddenly the bbc it has twisted its interest to a separate universe or something. We have people in south sudan starving to death, we have donald trump who is trying to manipulate the media, we have north korea threatening a new arms race and yet the whole world comes to a standstill because Warren Beatty opens the wrong envelope. If the bbc losing perspective on this sort of thing . Itjust dominated breakfast and it dominated the whole of the news for the rest of the day and in fact the next day i was sick to death of hearing about it come on bbc, get a grip. No awards from viewers of the best News Broadcaster there. The Disgru Ntlement viewers of the best News Broadcaster there. The disgruntlement continued through the week. Bbc news reported on thursday that the two accountants from pricewaterhousecoopers held responsible for the fiasco would not be working on the oscars again and on friday they would be
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tim davie, says impartiality is a founding principle of the bbc. here s our media correspondent, david sillito. as gary lineker left home today, it was clear an issue he thought was two days ago blowing over, isn t. and a previous director general of the bbc, greg dyke, who himself left the corporation after a run in with the government of the time, thinks the bbc has made a big mistake. there is a long established precedent in the bbc that if you are an entertainment presenter, oryou re a football presenter, then you are not bound by those same rules. and i think what the bbc has done is, actually, the real problem of today, is that the bbc has undermined its own credibility. for those running the bbc, this isjust a question of impartiality. however, the corporation s rules have some grey areas. those in news cannot express any political opinions,
as gary lineker left home today, it was clear an issue he thought was two days ago blowing over, isn t. and a previous director general of the bbc, greg dyke, who himself left the corporation after a run in with the government of the time, thinks the bbc has made a big mistake. there is a long established precedent in the bbc that if you are an entertainment presenter, oryou re a football presenter, then you are not bound by those same rules. and i think what the bbc has done is, actually, the real problem of today, is that the bbc has undermined its own credibility. for those running the bbc, this isjust a question of impartiality. however, the corporation s rules have some grey areas. those in news cannot express any political opinions, and caution is advised for all staff. but the guidelines say the risk is lower where an individual is expressing views publicly,