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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
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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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🎙️ 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