The Media Show: Artemis II and Nasa’s media machine

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  Welcome to The Explanation from the BBC World Service.

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  This is Ros Atkins and Katie Razzle, and this is The Media Show.

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  We're here to explain the trends behind the fast-changing media landscape.

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  This week on The Media Show, we 're speaking to the BBC's Acting Director-General

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  as the corporation announces sweeping cuts.

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  As a journalist is detained in Kuwait after sharing footage of a US Air Force jet crashing,

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  we 're asking what the case tells us about media control across the Gulf.

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  And the Artemis II mission has returned to Earth.

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  We're joined by the BBC reporter whose excited commentary of take-off went viral.

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  This week, the BBC announced sweeping cuts,

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  raising difficult questions about the future of public service broadcasting in the UK.

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  The corporation is facing falling income from the licence fee,

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  attacks on its impartiality and is in a fight for audiences with the likes of YouTube.

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  The BBC's acting director general is Rodri Talvan-Davies and he joined us in the studio.

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  So we've been sharing with staff the financial context facing the BBC right now and some growing financial pressures.

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  Which are crystallised really into what we 've described as a £500 million savings challenge,

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  which is equivalent to about 10% of the BBC's cost base.

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  That's £500 million you need to cut. £500 million that we will need to cut over the next two years.

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  And sadly, that will have an impact inevitably on the headcount and the number of staff working for the BBC.

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  Which we think will be in the order of about 1,800 to 2,000 over the next two years.

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