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Kate Dixon
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Founder, Good Egg Productions | Creator of Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch Podcast (@BeebRoger) | views my own
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America’s far-right culture wars. Big money. Big religion. Big trouble — heading our way too, if Katherine Stewart’s right. @katherinestewart.bsky.social

Fascinating interview with @peteryork.bsky.social

🎧 Listen now: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

#CultureWars #Podcast #PeterYork
August 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Big Tech's $500B AI gamble: Sir Martin Sorrell, advertising guru reveals to @peteryork.bsky.social how tech giants are becoming "basically nation states" - transforming global economics, creativity, and power. Can regulation stop it?
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#AI #GlobalEconomics #Technology
July 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Did @theginamiller.bsky.social just say bring back Boris?
Watch this 👇
🎧 Full chat with @peteryork.bsky.social on Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
July 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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🎧 Matthew d’Ancona joins @peteryork.bsky.social for a sharp conversation on Trump, the BBC, identity politics—& the end of the political pendulum.

📺 “These are all hallmarks of fascistic behaviour.”

Full episode: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
#CultureWars #MatthewDAncona #Fascism #Media #Politics
June 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Heroine or “mad cat lady”?
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social joins @peteryork.bsky.social to discuss the Observer’s new owners, Big Tech’s creeping influence, and whether democracy is being dismantled—quietly.
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#Podcast #CaroleCadwalladr #UKPolitics #PressFreedom
May 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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“You didn’t love us when we came. Now you do—because so many of us are rich, and they fund you.” 🔥 @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on Conservative hypocrisy, the hidden machinery of media censorship & cultural warfare
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#CultureWars #Tories
May 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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🎙️@peteryork.bsky.social & Dylan Jones—ex-GQ editor, Evening Standard editor from “literally no experience” to shaping UK style & politics:
➡️ Culture wars
➡️ Melania as a Bond girl
➡️ Russell Brand, Piers Morgan, Alastair Campbell
➡️ The fate of the suede loafer
🎧 Listen: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
May 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Laugh out loud moments in @peteryork.bsky.social chat with @iaindale.bsky.social
➡️ can the Conservatives be rebuilt?
➡️ how the UK is “five years downstream” from US culture
➡️ Trump, Ashcroft, and media moguls
➡️ public discourse: from antisemitism to trans rights
🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
April 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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"The coup has already happened." Ex-Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter unpacks America's cultural battlefield with @peteryork.bsky.social “I’ve never seen Donald Trump in any living room ever in 50 years of being in New York, & nobody would invite him anywhere." 🎧Listen: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
April 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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“They've kind of hidden that under a bushel." @james.crid.land radio futurologist on the BBC's audio strategy & he breaks down the BBC Annual plan. Informative interview on Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch podcast. 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch
April 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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BBC broadcaster Kirsty Lang on changes to BBC Sounds for listeners abroad, the impact of cuts and a call to arms. "We should be cherishing the BBC. We should be writing to our MPs..... We should be saying, 'Let us save this important national asset.'" 🎧 Beeb Watch podcast: podfollow.com/beebwatch
March 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Another fascinating interview by @peteryork.bsky.social with investigative journalist @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
💰 Dark money & political fraud
🏛️ Think tanks as corporate lobbyists
🌍 Tufton St → K St connections
🤝 Soros & Paul Marshall’s past friendship
🔗 Listen now: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
March 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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🚨 Impt interview with @stewartpurvis.bsky.social ex Ofcom & RTS VP:
🔹 RTS Awards controversy
🔹 GB News vs. Ofcom legal case
🔹 Foreign influence in UK media
"What's at stake is the future of broadcast journalism.The system is creaking. We need to decide whether we’ll fix it."🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch
March 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Forthright interview with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on
Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch podcast:
🔍 BBC’s withdrawn Gaza documentary
📰 Media bias & lack of critical journalism in the UK
🏛️ Influence of pro-Israeli groups in British media
📡 PSB’s responsibilities
🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch
March 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"York has always operated as a social anthropologist rather than a journalist, and he's as beady as ever in this stimulating podcast in which he lines up guests at the thinkier end of the media spectrum to get into the guts of the culture wars." Gc Great review
🎧 Listen podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
March 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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🎙️ Richard Ayre former BBC exec on the fallout from the Gaza documentary controversy, BBC future funding models, the World Service and a generational charter.
⚠️ “That’s very worrying... the BBC’s inquiry may unearth some bodies.”
🎧 Listen to Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch podcast: podfollow.com/beebwatch
March 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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A gripping interview [email protected] with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
🔥 From a Conservative upbringing to activism
🔥 Neoliberalism & how it infiltrated think tanks & academia
🔥 Is there an alternative vision?
🔥 Is the BBC a “timorous, cowering beastie”? 🐭
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February 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Unmissable: Gabriel Gatehouse,ex-BBC Newsnight & author The Coming Storm, talks to @peteryork.bsky.social
🔹 QAnon & conspiracy culture
🔹 Elon Musk & tech optimism
🔹 Identity politics & the culture wars
🔹What if Bernie Sanders won the nomination?
🔹 Can it happen here?
🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...
February 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🇺🇸Fascinating insights into Trump's presidency from
@dailymail.co.uk Chief US Political Correspondent @robcrilly.bsky.social on sidelining traditional media, Keir Starmer, communications strategy & Trump's impact on politics 🎧 Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch podcast now: podfollow.com/beebwatch/view
February 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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BBC Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky:
🔥 Being fired by the BBC Plays department
🎬 Wolf Hall & the creative process
📺 The fight to fund UK-focused stories
💰 A UK cultural fund to back British dramas
🎧Listen to Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch podcast now: podfollow.com/beebwatch
January 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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"For the first time in my life, I can conceive of a far-right government in this country." Chilling words from @mrjamesob.bsky.social But who knew that selling a white suit to John Major kick-started his career and 1.5m listeners? Listen to Peter York's podcast now:
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January 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🎭 Adjoa Andoh RSC & Bridgerton actor is a fascinating listen this week as she reveals her shock at the extent of radio drama cuts: "we're sort of the frog being boiled slowly". And voices her concerns over the future of our creative landscape.
🎧 Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch pod podfollow.com/beebwatch
January 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM