🔗 Share this article Ex- BBC Advisers Face MPs' Questioning In the Wake of Allegations of Partiality in Leaked Memo We open with inquiries from Conservative MP the committee chair, that leads the committee. She initiates by giving context to the leaked document written by Michael Prescott and printed in a national newspaper. "I don't want the BBC slanting in any particular direction, I simply desire it straight, unbiased and fair," he says. In response to a query if he thinks the British Broadcasting Corporation is structurally prejudiced, he responds: "No I don't. To be clear, a great deal the British Broadcasting Corporation creates is top-tier - encompassing factual and fictional content." Nevertheless, he states: "There is real work that must be undertaken at the BBC." A further former external British Broadcasting Corporation adviser questioned by the group, Caroline Daniel, remarks she takes the British Broadcasting Corporation extremely earnestly and that it maintains a "persistent practice and vigorous discourse" across evolving and intricate issues. "Was the BBC prepared to conduct a proper discussion and argument and take action?" she questions. "As I see it, indeed, they were."