
'Success for me is getting Gary back on air' says BBC boss Tim Davie
The BBC director general Tim Davie admits "this has been a tough time for the BBC", after a day of sports programme disruption.
Pat Nevin is a former international footballer for Scotland who also played for Chelsea and Everton. He discusses the Gary Lineker row. 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 14 May. Our guests today are Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Brussels bureau chief for the New York Times, and Kaya Genc, Turkish essayist and novelist.
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- Sun 12 Mar 202307:06GMTBBC World Service