There are few women and even fewer ethnic minority stars: the BBC has published its list of top earners to an outcry over diversity. Theresa May demanded to know why the corporation paid women less than men for doing the same job, while a number of high profile presenters were forced to defend their salaries.
The corporation will work together with other media and cultural institutions as part of a drive to create a more “open BBC”, director general Lord Hall says.
John Whittingdale says that his BBC green paper will consider a subscription model for the corporation in the long term as it is revealed the future of Radio 1 and 2 are under review.
BBC Trust Chairman Rona Fairhead says any perception that there is “political interference” in the way the corporation is run risks “having a chilling effect” on it.
Gary Gibbon
The Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has confirmed the Sunday Times story that the government is handing over responsibility for the free licence fees for the over-75s policy to the BBC.
BBC Trust Chair and HSBC Director Rona Fairhead tells Cathy Newman the corporation is her priority “and that has been clear from the beginning”.
Nigel Farage has accused the BBC of bias for questioning him about problems with Ukip election candidates. Does the complaint stand up?
Alex Thomson
In an age when rock stars, sport stars – indeed stars of all sorts and political stars most of all – are essentially dulled by walls of PR and PC flummery, Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear stood out.
Jeremy Clarkson’s suspension from Top Gear following a “fracas” with a producer is not his first brush with controversy. Here are nine of his most infamous moments.
The Wanless review of the Home Office’s handling of child sex abuse allegations is one of many such inquiries. Here are the others, from Savile and Cyril Smith to Rochdale and Rotherham.
Alex Thomson
Today’s news of a breakthrough in the treatment of spinal cord injury is for all those suffering from paralysis – as well as those who say the news is always depressing.
After twenty-five years, Jeremy Paxman says he wants to go to sleep at the same time as his viewers. Ahead of his last Newsnight, Jon Snow went to interview him at the BBC.
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson says the BBC will sack him if he makes “one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time”. It follows claims the presenter used racist language while filming.
One MP’s proposal to stop it being a criminal offence if you don’t pay your TV licence could have worrying implications for the BBC.
Lord McAlpine, the former UK Conservative party deputy chairman dies at the age of 71 at his home in Italy, his family announces.