{"id":59904,"date":"2018-09-25T01:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/25\/david-attenborough-calls-for-more-bbc-arts-coverage\/"},"modified":"2018-09-25T01:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T23:01:06","slug":"david-attenborough-calls-for-more-bbc-arts-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=59904","title":{"rendered":"David Attenborough calls for more BBC arts coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran broadcaster pushes corporation to showcase new attitudes and voices.Sir David Attenborough has criticised the BBC for not producing enough arts and cultural programmes.Attenborough, 92, said the public broadcaster was instead focusing on shows that attracted a large audience. Speaking to Radio Times, he said: \u201cI don\u2019t think the BBC does enough [arts and culture]. It\u2019s not enough simply to say, \u2018Well, it doesn\u2019t get a big enough audience\u2019. If you\u2019re a public service broadcaster, what you should be saying is, \u2018We will show the broad spectrum of human interest. People of all kinds should be catered for\u2019.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/sep\/25\/david-attenborough-calls-for-more-bbc-arts-coverage\" target=\"_blank\">David Attenborough calls for more BBC arts coverage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran broadcaster pushes corporation to showcase new attitudes and voices.Sir David Attenborough has criticised the BBC for not producing enough arts and cultural programmes.Attenborough, 92, said the public broadcaster was instead focusing on shows that attracted a large audience. Speaking to Radio Times, he said: \u201cI don\u2019t think the BBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}