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Jane Martinson

This post-Huw Edwards BBC shakeup feels awfully familiar – and insiders aren’t impressed

Huw Edwards
Huw Edwards leaves Westminster magistrates court after sentencing, 16 September 2024. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

A detailed review into workplace bullying and harassment at the BBC found stars behaving badly, untouchable and unchallenged, with staff too fearful to speak out. Called Respect at Work, the review into the culture that incubated Jimmy Savile was published in 2013.

Since then, the Huw Edwards scandal – along with allegations about other stars including Gregg Wallace (which he has said were “not all true”) – has led to another BBC review into its own culture. Given it has exactly the same name and was written by the same consultancy, it seems fair to ask: what exactly has changed?

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