Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of Choppers Politics Podcast recorded live here at the Red Lion

pub in Westminster. This may well be the last time you

hear my dulcet tones listeners as we recall this podcast on Tuesday the 4th of

July after a pint of Black Velvet with the former BBC Chairman.

More on that later.

If you don't know and if you don't, where have you been for the previous 360 episodes of this podcast with our 8.2 million

listens? I'm Christopher Politics at the Daily Telegraph and it's great to have you here.

On today's episode, a simple proposition, an exclusive interview, the exit interview with Richard Sharp the outgoing chairman of the BBC

we chatted about bias the future of a license fee the dangers of Twitter and a certain Boris Johnson.

I started by asking which is sharp one question.

Why are you resigning?

I stepped down from the BBC because I formed a view that I couldn't do the job that

I'd arrived to do.

Just the noise of the reporting.

Yeah, look, the BBC faces a huge amount of challenges and that was what attracted to me in the first place

because I thought I could bring my existing experience to bear on the BBC to help it develop

and change in a way to be competitive and you have to form a judgment

if you're the chair.

Can I remain effective in seeking to do what I want to do?

And the judgment has to be made in the interest of the institution.

Was the noise that forced you out created by the BBC itself?

No, no.

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