Empire at 21:00 GMT: How the BBC Schedule Quietly Runs the World
The BBC schedule, that timid spreadsheet of imperial nostalgia, still beams out from London with the solemnity of a butler announcing dinner. Yet what looks like a quaint list of “Gardeners’ World” and “Antiques Roadshow” is, in truth, a soft-power stealth bomber making nightly landings in 180-odd territories. While Washington exports aircraft carriers and Beijing…
