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by Lamiat Sabin
PRESSURE mounted yesterday on the BBC to scrap a show dubbed “voyeuristic poverty porn” before the filming has even started.
At least 14,000 people have signed a Change.org petition calling for the production of the “degrading and exploitative” programme to be abandoned.
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
JAMES NALTON takes a look at the German league’s move to grow its audience in Britain, and around the future of football on TV in general
200 years since the first dinosaur was described and 25 after its record-breaking predecessor, the BBC has brought back Walking with Dinosaurs. BEN CHACKO assesses what works and what doesn’t
