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  "path": "/opinion/bbc-blasted-biased-broadcaster-nigel-farage-desert-island-discs-nana-akua",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-31T15:31:56.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nThe BBC, aka auntie, our publicly funded broadcaster, is up to her old tricks again and is now facing allegations of bias.\n\nApparently Nigel Farage has been \"banned\" from appearing on Desert Island Discs, an 84-year-old show that has featured Sir Keir Starmer and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, but not Nigel Farage. What a surprise.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nAccording to a new biography, written by the Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft, the Reform UK leader will never be invited on to the show because his presence would make staff feel \"unsafe\".\n\nTalk about woke overdrive? Program makers were apparently worried that others would boycott the show if Nigel Farage was featured. Really?\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nNow I’ve never really sat down and listened to a full Desert Island Discs, a tired old show with a simple format, frankly because I’m too busy.\n\nBut basically celebrities, politicians, historians and people of interest choose their favourite songs that they would like to listen too if deserted on a desert island. It’s very simple.\n\nLord Ashcroft quotes a BBC source as saying that Mr Farage \"has effectively been blacklisted\" from the show.\n\nThe source said: \"Farage is regarded instinctively by many BBC staff as unacceptable. At least half the staff would think Radio 4 had become an \"unsafe space\" if he was on Desert Island Discs.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"Nothing would be written down, it’s just classic liberal-Left BBC.\"\n\nThe BBC hit back, saying: \"We do not ban any individuals from appearing on Desert Island Discs and that includes Mr Farage.\"\n\nBut this month when Nigel’s team asked if he qualified to appear on Lauren Laverne’s show on Radio 4, they say they were told: \"As we are now well into production on our latest series, we’re not currently looking for new castaways.\n\n\"When making decisions about the very few active politicians we have on the programme, we make the bookings over quite a long time period ensuring a range of voices.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe BBC added it would \"stay in touch\" and \"revisit Nigel’s interest for a future series\".\n\nWe shall see, but it seems unfortunately for the likes of Nigel, Auntie has her favourites and his name's not down, so he’s not coming in, not on that show anyway.\n\nDespite the BBC being our publicly funded broadcaster requiring to be unbiased, whose licence fee has a jail term if not paid, it would appear that the corporation is still ideologically captured.\n\nI’m pretty sure there is no way that I as an ex-BBC person, now on GB News, would ever get a look in on a show like Strictly, because I’m the wrong kind of black.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nUnfortunately the BBC is sliding even further down the ranks of an unbiased broadcaster.\n\nIf there is any further to fall, which is why in my view, so many refuse to pay the license fee.\n\nNot something I would encourage of course, just an observation. If only auntie would listen.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "The BBC is sliding even further down the ranks of an unbiased broadcaster, says Nana Akua"
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