In this episode, Matthew Lloyd Roberts is joined by Samira Ahmed, journalist, broadcaster, presenter and President of C20, to discuss the BBC Television Centre. Opened in 1960 in White City, the building became one of the most recognisable homes of British broadcasting, where countless television programmes were made and transmitted for over half a century. In this episode, we explored the history and architecture of the Television Centre, its place in Britain's cultural imagination, and what its transformation tells us about the changing role of the BBC and public broadcasting.

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