What Went Wrong With The BBC Gaza Documentary?

BBC加沙纪录片出了什么问题?

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2025-07-15

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Today, we discuss the findings of a BBC report which found that the documentary Gaza: How To Survive a Warzone had breached editorial guidelines. The BBC previously pulled the documentary from iPlayer after it was uncovered that the 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official. The report says the production company Hoyo Films bears most of the responsibility for the failures. Hoyo Films said it took the reviews findings "extremely seriously" and said it "apologises for the mistake that resulted in a breach of the editorial guidelines". Another report looking into BBC show MasterChef has found that 45 allegations against presenter Gregg Wallace have been upheld. Wallace said in response that some of his humour and language "missed the mark", but added: "I never set out to harm or humiliate. I always tried to bring warmth and support to MasterChef, on screen and off." Adam is joined by BBC News Culture and Media editor Katie Razzall and Culture reporter Noor Nanji. And, President Trump has threatened “very severe” tariffs against Russia if there is no Ukraine deal within 50 days. Adam speaks to Caitriona Perry, Chief Presenter for BBC News. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. To get your tickets for Newscast live in Edinburgh - https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/bbc-newscast-podcast You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Get in touch with Newscast by emailing newscast@bbc.co.uk or send us a whatsapp on +44 0330 123 9480. New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bit.ly/3ENLcS1 Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Shiler Mahmoudi and Anna Harris. The social producers were Jada Meosa John . The technical producer was Ben Andrews. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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  • Hello,

  • it's been a day of potential danger for the BBC as two long awaited reports about two big controversies landed in everyone's inboxes.

  • One was about Greg Wallace and his time as a presenter on MasterChef,

  • which attracted lots of complaints from people who worked on that programme.

  • The other was the forensic examination of what went wrong about that documentary filmed in Gaza by independent production company where the child who was narrating it turns out to be the son of a Hamas official.

  • Lots of questions were asked about both those situations.

  • Today we got some answers.

  • We'll discuss what they mean on this episode of Newscast.

  • Hello it's Adam in the newscast studio and the first two stories we're going to cover on today's episode are related to the BBC although they are quite different and then we'll end with a very different story which is about Donald Trump changing his mind about how much military support to provide to Ukraine and also a toughening up of his opinion about Russia.

  • So the first story And the first one related to the BBC is about that documentary broadcast earlier this year,

  • filmed in Gaza and presented and narrated by a young boy who became the subject of a lot of media scrutiny.

  • And the person who's been doing that scrutiny for us today is the BBC's media editor,

  • Katie Razzle, who's here.

  • Hi, Katie.

  • Hi, Adam.

  • So the backstory to this was it was this documentary filmed in Gaza,

  • narrated by a young boy, made crucially by an independent production company for the BBC.

  • It was broadcast, it went on iPlayer,

  • then when people spotted that this child was the son of a Hamas official in Gaza,

  • it got pulled from iPlayer and the BBC started this review.