What's the Point of the BBC? (Hardcover)

This is a rigorous analysis of the BBC and its role in our daily lives. This book considers the future of the BBC in the light of questions over the continuation of the license fee. Does the BBC have a role in the 21st Century? Does the license fee continue to be a viable way of funding Britian's primary public service broadcaster, or does it represent an increasingly insupportable tax? Is the public failing to receive value for its money, and should the fee be used to fund other media companies making programs that fit a public service definition? Has the BBC lost sight of its national role and its commitment to quality? What will happen when the license fee comes up for renewal in 2012? Will any government be brave or foolhardily enough to take on the BBC? These and other questions are the substance of a book of challenging and wide ranging views about the future of a British institution.