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Depending on your opinion (and mine depends very much upon whether they want to option this book as the basis for some kind of ‘Best of British’ style show where C-list celebrities pretend to remember clips they have just been shown), the British Broadcasting Corporation is either a wonderful British institution, the pinnacle of broadcasting and worth every penny of the licence fee or an overblown money pit that taxes viewing, wastes budget on endless clip shows and is a propaganda machine for Britain’s politically correct liberal-left. The corporation was founded in 1922 by Lord John Reith and came into state ownership in 1927. Its mission statement slogan is ‘Nation shall speak unto nation in quite a posh accent’ (see queen’s english) and it is now responsible for a huge array of television channels, radio stations and internet sites across the globe. The BBC has been responsible for nearly all of Britain’s best-loved radio (see radio 4) and television programmes, as well as Noel’s House Party.