Sir David provides observations on his first six months as Chairman as well as setting out how the BBC's public purposes will be central to achieving the Corporation's vision to reinvent itself for a new generation.
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Introduction
I’m proud to be speaking to you as Chairman of the BBC.
A couple of years ago in his MacTaggart lecture, Armando Iannucci called public service broadcasting “one of the best things we’ve ever done” as a country.
It’s something I have always believed. And I believe the British public do as well.
Not just because an unprecedented number responded to the Government’s consultation paper at the time of our Charter Review, the great majority in support of the BBC…
