He'll at least be pleased with extensive coverage in LadBible: "News of savings is hard. It's hard for us, it's hard for audiences, because everything we touch or try to change, or in some cases, close down, is somebody's favourite piece of the BBC's offer to them. So, it's not easy to make these choices, but we're working through plans and we said to our staff within news that we will be able to say more in June."
I'm sure he looked cheerful at some time in the proceedings. I was taken with a phrase by Royal Correspondent Sean Coghlan this week, which might be applied here: "King Charles sometimes has the melancholy look of someone who keeps getting disappointing phone calls."
Mr Munro is interim director because Deborah Turness resigned over the Trump edit on Panorama. For at least five months before that, both Ms Turness and Mr Munro held parallel views that a) the edit reflected a greater truth that needed making simpler and stronger for the audience to understand a particular narrative or b) it was standard practice to jump edit political speeches. In November 2025, the BBC apologised to Donald Trump: "We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech, rather than excerpts from different points in the speech, and that this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action".
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