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HARDtalk: Lord Patten, Chairman, BBC Trust

16/09/2011

Lord Patten, Chairman, BBC Trust

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Stephen Sackur talks to Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust, about the BBC's future.

Stephen Sackur talks to Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust, about the future for the public sector broadcaster in a changing global media landscape.

The BBC is the worlds biggest broadcaster. It has a proud history, but what about its future? Funding is being squeezed, the competition across all media platforms is intense and its role as a public service broadcaster is under constant scrutiny. Lord Patten is the Chairman of the Trust which oversees the BBC. The global media landscape is changing with extraordinary speed; can the BBC keep up? Lord Patten talks to Stephen Sackur.

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