Business plan ?

Good heavens. This Twitter exchange looks like James Purnell of the BBC promising Fraser Nelson that he will podcasts made by The Spectator on BBC Sounds. Is that really letting little 'uns get access ?

Just sat next to a woman on the tube who was on her own, doubled up in laughter, listening to the BBC’s new Americast podcast. Quite an advert. Just how us independent podcast producers can cope with competition from the mighty BBC is another question tho https://t.co/WEz48kfkc7

— Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) February 5, 2020

Any chance of you hosting some Spectator podcasts on BBC Sounds?

— Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) February 5, 2020

I’d like fair competition. ITV, LBC, Ch4 don’t do many podcasts: they have to raise their own money. The taxman (and courts) raise the BBC’s money. Its early reticence over podcasts allowed a space for tiny publishers (like us) to develop our own channels. It’s different now.

— Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) February 5, 2020

Aiming to do it this year.

— James Purnell (@jimpurnell) February 5, 2020