BBC director says ‘sorry’ for sport disruption

Football shows were pulled at short notice on Saturday after presenters and commentators walked out in support of Match of the Day host Gary Lineker. Match of the Day was reduced to a 20-minute edition. Lineker was suspended after criticising the government’s controversial asylum policy, but Mr Davie denied the government pressured him into the move.
Also on the programme, in the midst of a massive recovery effort after the devastating February earthquake, politics have taken centre stage in Turkey this week after the official announcement by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that the country’s parliamentary and presidential elections will be held on 14th May. Our guests today are Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Brussels bureau chief for the New York Times, and Kaya Genc, Turkish essayist and novelist.