A FORMER BBC producer has shared examples of BBC bosses critiquing the coverage of the 2014 referendum.
producer has shared examples of BBC bosses critiquing the coverage of the 2014 referendum.
Hosting the conversation was Times sportswriter and broadcaster Graham Speirs, originally from Bearsden. At the end of the event, Speirs said that Kay’s work over the years had “illuminated” him on Scotland as a country, culture, and having its own language.in the 1970s, including Odyssey, an oral history series which captured the diverse lives and experience of men and women across Scotland.
and one very critical of the BBC– BBC England’s mainly - portrayal of the situation during the referendum.“So that’s two people, high heidyins who said that to me and I think that it’s got worse since then I really do, now that it’s got closer.” Kay further highlighted several shows he produced or narrated that would likely not be broadcast on radio or TV nowadays. When asked where the negative emotion towards Scottish language and culture comes from, he said he believed it was due to the political environment of the UK where people are “threatened by expressions of Scottishness”.
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