how can anybody honestly say the BBC isn't biased

The BBC represents such a small section of British society nowadays that it doesn't warrant the licence fee and should be cut loose to find its own way.

I for one, no longer watch or listen to BBC nonsense ( 5 years now) I urge all to follow me, until it is stripped from the top and restructured !

STOP paying for a 'license fee' the more people boycott the biased BBC the sooner it will be gone.

we need to clear the BBCs house out completely

don't pay for your licence folks

Rod Liddle was a bloody good editor. I have listened to the Today Show since I was a teenager and it used to be an excellent show . Now John Humphrys has left it will never be the same . They used to have real battle hardened journalists on the show, people with character and distinctive voices. Now they all sound the same. Because fundamentally they are all the same. It was the same with the News Quiz whose format was ripped off for HIGNFY on TV. In it's early days the panel was made up of real journalists, cynical, funny and sometimes far from sober. Now it's full of "comedians" that no-one outside the M25 has even heard of and are just not funny - by any standards. It's so sad - I have been a Radio 4 listener virtually all my life, now I can scarcely be bothered with it.

I love the sound of John Humphrys voice, I hope he goes on to do radio plays and documentaries or audio books

I cant watch the biased broadcasting corporation anymore....

Two exceptional and brilliant journalists

The fact that all these once famous and familiar 'Broadcaster's', now retired or sacked, are speaking as one, and confirming what the viewer's/ listener's have been saying for years.

I can always tell when someone on the bbc is lying, their lips move.

An ordinary bloke who made it to the top at the BBC simply on merit. We will never see his like at the BBC again. Elitist, and feigning impartiality, it needs pulling down.

If the BBC was privatised, many of those managers would disappear overnight.

BBC = Britain's CNN.

We pay to be indicrtinated! Trying to explain to none British that we pay for this, is hard work.

I can accurately sum up how the BBC works. On the day that Cameron made his "I will give you a referendum" announcement, I made a written prediction to all my friends and family, that as from tomorrow morning, the "Calais migrant crises" would suddenly, and mysteriously, disappear from our screens completely, (even though it had shoved the "guilt" trip and "racist" trip at the viewer for the last 3 months.) I was 100% correct.

Jimmy savile loved Broadmoor ! And was completely at home in the bbc !! Say no more !

Nice and quite refreshing to hear someone like Humphrey’s speak out more freely about the machine 👍

As an American, I cannot fathom why a publicly funded media company, and moreover one that only leans left, is in the least bit necessary.

Ironically, LGBBCGTW leaves out "i" - people born with an intersex medical condition who do actually need some support but are drowned out in the howling madness.

The BBC is a dinosaur and becoming extinct to the Internet

I stopped taking BBC Radio 4 seriously in 2000 and haven’t looked back. Not just the news, the whole thing. Every programme biased.

These should be longer

What the BBC fails to recognise is that it is no longer taken seriously on political issues.

It is so sad to see "Auntie" turn into Anti - rational thought. The days have gone where working class people can get anywhere near the BBC, so much for diversity.

Make the BBC subscription! If anybody feels simultaneously that their IQ and bank balance are too high, then I'm perfectly happy for them to pay a BBC subscription to lower both. But forcing an entire nation to pay for highly dogmatic propaganda to make all who watch dumber, doesn't seem to me to be very sensible.

John Humphries is one of the very best journalists ever . A true professional, through and through.

The BBC is incredibly biased. It’s a tragedy that it has come to this, but I’d vote to remove public funding.

I hugely enjoyed filling in the BBC online opinion form the other day. I bet they don't publish any of my choice comments that they invited me to provide and I would be equally surprised if they publish the results of the survey.

I used to love listening to John Humphrey’s - I’m so pleased he decided to leave that biased broadcasting corporation !!!!

The BBC have no right to support one side or the other, their mandate is to Inform, Educate and Entertain.

I have made complaints to the BBC news team about their bias a few times and asked for a response in the checkbox but they never reply. I think it’s only when people stop paying the licence fee en masse that they’ll take any semblance of notice of the silent majority.

Perhaps the most telling moment is when JH says “I speak from profound ignorance....” Pretty much sums up his Today performance in recent years 🙄

What a decent man Who brought a sense humanity to many difficult news stories particularly during the 1980s & 1990s that few others at the BBC did regardless of any BBC bias.

"alleged" - as if the bias isn't patently obvious

Most large organisations employ loads of people whose main job is to hinder the raison d'etre of the organisation. Finance, Legal, HR, Risk. It's usually not without purpose or reason but they can sidetrack the business with nonsense and if they're the parts of the organisation that's growing it's a problem.

If you want the BBC sorted out then stop funding it, like I have for the last 12 years , I’ll never give them another penny. Learn your rights & TV licensings lack of them & it’s easy

John Humphrys is a National Treasure!

I like this Rod Little. He's often irrascible, but it's hard to fault him when he's provoked by unreasonable guests or hosts. Despite that, it's obvious he's got a good heart.

Oh I miss the BBC so much. After school it was Blue Peter. It felt safe. I know the world has moved on, but Please reform and reset or just stay as you are and lose us more and more. The BBC can be much better than this. Or continue to plough on regardless and slowly sink, as you put on your makeup. The party’s over my friend.

Jeramy Clarkson . Ordinary people ( who pay the license fee ) loved him but the management despised him because he didn't follow the PC rule book .

The threats of imprisonment are real and disproportionate.

Privatise the BBC or better still shut it down.

Panorama’s next exposé: ‘We’re Not Classists or Elitist, But We Do Have Fancy Accents’

If JH feels so strongly that the BBC is biased why did he do spend do long there? Very easy to be critical once you gave a secure pension.

From the BBC news website today "The BBC has said an introduction about Dominic Cummings on Tuesday's Newsnight did not meet the required standards of due impartiality. The programme began with presenter Emily Maitlis saying "the country can see" Cummings had "broken the rules" The BBC said the news programme's staff had been reminded about its guidelines. At the beginning of the BBC Two programme, Maitlis said the country was "shocked" that the government could not see that Boris Johnson's aide had broken the rules"."

An interview with Peter Sissons would have been far more illuminating.

Wow. I am surprised. Pleasantly

So Humphries only speaks out once he's not taking the BBC's over inflated wages and has a book to sell.

I'd disagree with John and Rod that the management are liberal. The narrative is pure left

I would be wonderful if Rod's show could be expanded to an hour and added to the excellent line up of British 'Rubinesque' interview programmes now on KZfaq like Douglas Carswell's, So What You're Saying Is..., Triggernomentry, Julia Hartley-Brewer's, etc..

They said nothing. They just congratulated each other. A waste of time.

I cant stand the namby pamby BBC anymore.It seems treat everyone like we are 5 years old and dont know our own minds.The BBC one day will just be a memory and irrelevant.

Can we find the knob at the BBC and turn it off.

Phfff. John Humfrys talking about ‘liberal’ bias on the BBC is a bit like Jimmy Savile telling me there’s a few perverts in the office.

In 100 years or so some archaeologist will dig up videos of Monty Python. They will watch them and 'he' will be hailed as a great prophet who predicted what came after the 1970s. They will not realise that it was a comedy show!

He was holding back big time, you could see it in his face. But 100 decades at the beeb would make you be like that wouldn't it?

It’s such a shame to see what was once such a well respected brilliant tv company which brought to us such things as the David Attenborough series Frozen planet, Life, life of birds etc and also tv shows like top gear, Fawlty towers, Monty Pythons flying circus etc just plunging downwards into degeneracy, unoriginality and overwhelming political liberal bias.

Took humphries long enough to see the light...AFTER MAKING LOTS OF MONEY FROM LICENCE FEES

BBC - building Britain's caliphate.

I Stoped watching Tv when I got my first Computer, 16 years ago, Didn't like being spoon-fed information like all the children around me, I have an acquired taste for the truth, and that black box wasn't telling it.

I will really miss John Humphrey because I never knew what his personal views were. He was so impartial which is what a responsible interviewer should be. The other presenters you would certainly know where their sympathies lie. I bought his book for my husband who preferred it to Cameron’s memoirs!

Was framing the shot with a Union Flag fluttering outside deliberate?

John Humphrys and I quote I was slow about Saville!

You give me the big money I will say what you want , when I leave I will tell the truth!

Our greatest political interviewer of all time. I miss him badly already.

As with for example Generals and suchlike from the armed forces, these people are happy to take the shilling and toe the line whilst in situ, wait until they have their pensions before telling it as it really is.

Who put the closing thumbnail over John's face? He's the subject of the interview for Christ's sake!

What are the chances Sir Rod Lidde

Watching Emily Maitlis and Thornberry last night was hilarious but scary too.

"The moment will come when the barbarians are at the gates and we'll be arguing about which pronouns to use for them." Douglas Murray.

*In their defence The BBC produces absolutely wonderful programs, War & Peace, Poldark, Peaky Blinders, Line of Duty, Call The Midwife, Planet Earth, The Night Manager, Strictly Dancing, Doctor Foster, Gentleman Jack, Happy Valley, the list is endless. I consider my modest licence fee money well spent and for less than £3 a week terrific value compared to 'commercial channels' where you are subject to at least 15 minutes every hour of advertising chair Lifts etc. In France there is an annual TV licence, which, last year, was 116 euros - approx £92. This comes with the taxe d'habitation, which is a local community tax. For many years TV shops have had to inform the government of the name and address of anyone who buys a TV set. The programs are pretty dire! This will soon happen in the UK as many tightfisted cheapskates endeavour to cheat the system - I do not believe ANYONE who states they do not watch the BBC - total rubbish, however I do agree that their 'Political Reporting' is leaning to to the far left, and biased. Watch Sky News Australia for what I consider to be balanced and accurate reporting. In Germany, there is not only a TV license fee, but a **_Radio Fee_** as well for those traditionalists who do not own a TV set. Ordinary TV consumers have the radio fee included in their TV fee.*

Is there an Overton Window?

What a pity he didn't say more when he had influence.

Long gone are the days of honest unbiased journalism due to the prolific illiberal liberal media studies professors and their profound influence on the mindset of their favourite students.

Love his work. He's right about the BBC. I only tune into their world service program through a local radio station, but, that's it. American, but, fan of things from the UK and other countries.

It’s nice to listen to a couple of gentlemen telling the truth regarding the BBC ,,,,,,,,,,when is Richard dimbleby going to see THE LIGHT ?

i always liked humphrys on mastermind.

all very well recanting now but at the helm of the Today program Humphries faithfully toed the party line for decades. And presided over the dumbing-down of Mastermind.

This should have been 70 minutes, not 7.

Far too short a programme. I could watch these two for hours!

Yet Humphreys was on an IQ^2 debate only a few years ago defending the BBC saying that there was no bias at the BBC.

I have no sympathy for Humphreys. He's 76 and has been paid a fortune for years, if it really bothered him he could have left a long time ago. As it is, despite having never been to University, he still managed to espouse exactly the same views...

The BBC has got far worse since this video was made in Oct 2019 ....

John ‘well presumably’ Humphrys & Rod ‘Two-Bob Demagogue’ Liddle - what a pair…..

What's wrong with being old white men.

I simply do not accept that the BBC is filled with nice people who are just naive about their insanity.

I loved it, but was that Union Jack outside the window on purpose.

John Humphreys sadly missed, always head and shoulders the most neutral, fair but tough, intelligent interviewer, BBC has now totally descended into the pits

Oh, big deal! Who hasn't had a three-way with Esther McVey and Sophie Ridge?

If you want to get a job and get promotion in the BBC be upper middle class, jewish, ethnic minority or gay (or any combination) and be a Far Left liberal arts graduate. If you are male, white, heterosexual and working class...forget it. Our job is to fund it.

Time after time after time after time after time. Destructive bbc

We are living in day of the locusts time

Much nicer than seems.speak for yourself. Most straight talking person ever.

Where's the rest of this??? Hearing a respected insider confirming all the things that we already know is very satisfying!

Great. But too short.

John Humphrys sang the Liberal Left’s tune until he was about to retire. Agree money before morals.

How can somebody who who was employed by the BBC for fifty years be considered to be a brilliant journalist?

Reminds me of WA1