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Has the government reached a truce with the BBC?

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The new chairman of the BBC has been announced. It’s not Charles Moore, or Paul Dacre, but a low-profile former banker called Richard Sharp. On the podcast, Cindy Yu talks to James Forsyth and Katy Balls about what Sharp’s appointment reflects about the government’s war on the BBC.

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