BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation

BBC to cut one in 10 jobs in radical downsizing

New director-general Matt Brittin to replace Tim Davie next month

Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch dismissed

US president called media mogul personally to try prevent publication of report he sent ‘bawdy’ email to Jeffrey Epstein

Holly Humberstone: ‘I have to look nice, or my album isn’t going to sell. The same rules don’t apply for dudes’

The singer was still at school when the BBC discovered her. By 2024 she was opening for Taylor Swift – yet she still doesn’t have the music industry all figured out, she says

Trump’s World Cup has a strong whiff of the last days of Rome

With a host nation at war and ‘Fifa’ rendered as a swear word, escapism will be hard to find this summer

Ronan Keating’s Wild Atlantic review: The singer’s grief is raw and real during his travels

Television: Sightseeing takes a back seat as Keating talks about his brother Ciarán, who died in 2023

Bafta N-word controversy: BBC found to have breached editorial standards

Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson could be heard shouting racial slur during ceremony

Be more Ryan Gosling: Why AI and the media need us to be curious

News outlets are built on curiosity. Now they’re having to defend the kind the powerful don’t like

The Young Offenders on BBC One: Lowbrow gags sitting neatly between Benny Hill and Mrs Brown’s Boys

Television: The cast is outstanding, Cork looks great – what a tragedy this can’t aspire to more than old-school British sitcom in a Cork jersey

Irish-language Bluey actor had never heard of hit show before its turn as Gaeilge

Global smash Australian kids show to begin airing in Irish next week

Race across the World: Irish dad and daughter enter derring-do spirit of amiable travel show

In tense times, geopolitically speaking, there is an undeniable pleasure in watching people embrace the stress and excitement of travel

Scott Mills says he has been subject to ‘rumour and speculation’ since sacking by BBC

Former radio presenter removed from role after broadcaster received ‘new information’ relating to alleged historical sex offence

What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad

The creation and dissemination of reliable news is at an economic disadvantage

Babies on BBC One: Siobhán Cullen is quietly searing in beautifully made show suffused with dread

Television: Series is to be applauded for sensitively addressing the anguish of being unable to have a child and the related pain of miscarriage

Siobhán Cullen on Babies: ‘It’s crazy to me that I had come this far without knowing so much’

Stefan Golaszewski’s BBC series starring Cullen and Paapa Essiedu gives screen time to some of the most soul-wrenching experiences imaginable

DJ Scott Mills sacked by BBC over ‘personal conduct’ allegations

Scott Mills took over the Radio 2 Breakfast Show from Zoe Ball last year

TV guide: The best new shows to watch, starting tonight

March 28th-April 3rd highlights, including Grace, Race Across the World, and Your Friends & Neighbors

How The Kinks’ musical spat with Moby blew up

Lola, which the New York musician took issue with, came out 56 years ago. That’s a long time in pop music and a geologic aeon in gender politics

Clive Myrie: ‘The best journalists are the ones who behave like human beings’

The BBC news anchor and Mastermind host films the quiz show in Belfast and is a regular visitor to Ireland

Barnum star Lee Mead: ‘I was hoping I’d be singing on a cruise ship, but no. It was a car ferry’

Manifesting what he wanted in life worked for the TV and theatre actor when it came to landing the lead role in Barnum

Irish MasterChef finalist Mark O’Brien: ‘The biggest challenge is the feeling of exposure’

Dubliner Mark O’Brien was one of three chefs who made it to the final of the flagship BBC programme

BBC names former Google executive as new director general

Matt Brittin to take on role in May, facing advance of Trump lawsuit and challenges to broadcaster’s funding model

Martin Clunes on playing Huw Edwards in controversial new drama: ‘Wow, this is what he really said’

Clunes plays the former BBC News presenter in Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards

Bafta TV awards 2026: Graham Norton and Philippa Dunne lead Irish nominees

Belfast-set dramas Blue Lights and Channel 4's Trespasses are also nominated

TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight

March 21st-27th highlights, including Crookhaven, Cheap European Homes, and Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen

This week’s events brought us no closer to understanding the enigma that is Gerry Adams

‘You must pick your battles when dealing with Gerry,’ noted one senior Belfast lawyer, not at all surprised by the outcome of the case

The Other Bennet Sister on BBC One: A love letter to outsiders, introverts and people who don’t fit in

Television: Hooray for weirdos who live inside their heads – and for this sly, pointed deconstruction of the costume drama industrial complex

Trump takes aim at Nato, Keir Starmer and Europe in meeting with Taoiseach

Micheál Martin intervened repeatedly to defend Starmer and insisted that Europe was ‘a good place to live’

Jessie Buckley, a generational talent with acting superpowers

From her quiet emotion in War & Peace to her compelling physicality in Hamnet, the Irish actor has shown her talent runs deep

Ronnie Delany: Ireland’s Olympic hero remembered

Personal anecdotes from readers highlight the lasting cultural impact of Ireland’s track legend

London’s Burning actor John Alford dies in prison

Alford was serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for sexual offences against two teenage girls

TV guide: the 10 best new shows to watch, starting tonight

March 14th-20th highlights: including Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair, The Other Bennet Sister and the Oscars

The White House ‘slopaganda’ machine is a direct hit on American soft power

Hollywood is used to being in the international persuasion business. Donald Trump’s triumphalist warmonger videos change that

Louis Theroux on masculinity, marriage and more: ‘Would you like me to cry now?’

The daring documentary-maker, who tackles the manosphere in his new Netflix project, has the tables turned as faces questions on some prickly subjects

TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight

March 7th-13th highlights, including: All That Remains with Niall Breslin; A Woman of Substance; a new Claudia Winkleman show; and more

Jessie Buckley: love of music, theatre helped me cope with eating disorder and depression

Actor from Killarney makes the comments to Lauren Laverne during an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs

Claudia Winkleman’s chatshow is ‘obviously going to be awful’. Or is it?

The host has a flair for spontaneous hilarity and an expert team behind her, but this is still a plunge into new territory

TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight

March 1st-6th highlights: including Goodman: Too Big to Fail; Home of the Year; Vladimir; and more

Mark Robson on his abuser: ‘When he died, I went through a terrible time because I wanted to kill him’

Rugby commentator has spent his life putting himself back together after being abused by paedophile Lindsay Brown when he was 11

Getting our oar in: Frank McNally on the perils of linguistic imperialism

Their eccentricity might be charming if it wasn’t for the assumption that everyone else speaks that way

‘Tourette syndrome is like blinking: the urge is too strong to control’

The man at the centre of the Bafta racial slur controversy said he was ‘deeply mortified’ if anyone considered his tics intentional

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