This week, your dedicated PhD-holding, newsletter-writing, Dr. Tom Chivers finally gets his own episode on how we turn the BBC into a democratic media mutual, and why the time to act is now (...with the BBC Charter review looming and whatnot).

00:00 The Mutualisation of the BBC

01:13 Dr. Thomas Chivers

03:13 The “syphilitic” academic loan system

06:23 What should be headline news but isn’t?

09:00 The BBC’s communicative violence

15:16 What motivates Dr. Chivers?

28:09 What does mutualisation even mean?

35:16 What does that look like in practice?

45:42 Another -tion: The federalisation of the BBC?

55:56 Collective wellbeing

01:03:15 A media commons?  ...