Investigative journalism has been having a tough time of it lately. In the broadcast space, Vice, once feted for its original and irreverent reporting, this year announced it would stop publishing new content. BBC Two current affairs flagship Newsnight was also cut by 10 minutes and deprived of top reporters such as its Diplomatic Editor, Mark Urban. Hundreds of jobs were lost at Vice, while more than 30 staff have been laid off at Newsnight.

“For me, it’s a real issue,” she explains, “because I spend so much time with guests before I interview them making them feel comfortable, going through their story, just letting them know I’ll be there to look after them.”

Such compassion comes as no surprise from a broadcaster who has long used her platform to both sensitively question victims of injustice and forensically interrogate those responsible.

1. Crashing

In London sky-high rent means that young people are looking for an affordable alternative.

Crashing is a comedy from writer and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridges (Broadchurch, Bad Education, The Iron Lady).

It follows the lives of six twenty-something property guardians who live in the abandoned Great London Hospital.

For an insight into the day job of the BBC Director-General two years into his role, I pop into Tony Hall's plate-glass eyrie at New Broadcasting House. I arrive in the aftermath of one of the regular encyclicals that DGs dispense.

He's sung the praises of the BBC's place in a "thriving, free and competitive market", an alternative to what a colleague terms the "Joni Mitchell" school of heartstring-tugging about the Beeb's innate brilliance.