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Charlotte Higgins

Crime History World

A Scandal in Oxford: The Curious Case of the Stolen Gospel

What links an eccentric Oxford classics don, billionaire US evangelicals, and a tiny, missing fragment of an ancient manuscript?

Charlotte Higgins The Guardian Jan 2020 25min Permalink

Media

The Battle for the BBC

The broadcasting behemoth is up for a charter renewal in the United Kingdom, and it’s exposing every crack in the organization.

Charlotte Higgins The Guardian Jul 2015 25min Permalink

Media

The BBC Report

A 9-part series on the past, present and future of the BBC.

  1. What Can the Origins of the BBC Tell Us About Its Future?

  2. The BBC: There to Inform, Educate, Provoke and Enrage?

  3. From David Kelly to Jimmy Savile, How Does the BBC Deal with a Crisis?

  4. The Big Beasts Who Shaped the BBC

  5. The BBC Informs, Educates and Entertains – But in What Order?

  6. The BBC: How the Voice of an Empire Became Part of an Evolving World

  7. BBC’s Long Struggle to Present the Facts Without Fear or Favour

  8. BBC Looks Beyond the Walled Garden in a Changing Media World

  9. The Future of the BBC: You Either Believe in It or You Don't

Charlotte Higgins The Guardian Apr–Aug 2014 3h Permalink