Nicholas Anderson: Yes, the government can pay for it as part of social policy (like they used to) instead of forcing this burden on to the BBC (along with paying for the World Service) out of licence fee income. If this ultimately happens, everybody else who pays their licence fee will receive a much reduced service since there will be less money available to actually produce the programmes.
Wednesday 15 April 2020 9:35AM
Nicholas Anderson: Yes, the government can pay for it as part of social policy (like they used to) instead of forcing this burden on to the BBC (along with paying for the World Service) out of licence fee income. If this ultimately happens, everybody else who pays their licence fee will receive a much reduced service since there will be less money available to actually produce the programmes.