"They dictate the rules’: BBC tells PM’s Evan Davis to stop hosting heat pump podcast

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"They dictate the rules’: BBC tells PM’s Evan Davis to stop hosting heat pump podcast

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Presenter believes decision was taken due to the technology’s link with net zero after he was told he risked accusations of political bias
Astonishing - or not so, given the "Green crap" pushback?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/ ... mp-podcast
What political bias can there possibly be in discussing the pros and cons of a technology? I fear that Trumpism is spreading... Alternative truths and all that.
also says
Bean Beanland, a director at the Heat Pump Federation and Davis’s co-presenter on the podcast, described the decision as “quite extraordinary”. Douglas Parr, Greenpeace UK’s policy director, said: “As an impartial broadcaster, the BBC should not be pandering to attempts from the right to turn the world’s most efficient home heating system into a culture war issue. What’s next – cancelling Gardeners’ World because of Monty Don’s support for peat-free compost?”
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