The Retrenchment of the British Broadcasting Corporation

In the early 19 seventies, you've got a conservative government. The situation in northern ireland appears to be deteriorating rapidly. Social commentators at the time talk about a kind of society which is turning increasingly soura anfractious. And part of it ista the approach that een trethawan, as director general, would have in the seventies was this that the b b c was fighting on too many fronts.