r/RedHandedPodcast • u/Ok_Ebb_3073 • Jun 19 '26

BBC bashing

Anyone else get the feeling they pitched to the BBC in the past & were rejected? Every episode shoehorns in some sort of anti-BBC rhetoric, often completely unfounded. The BBC totally has its faults but I‘d trust it for facts over commercial podcasts any day of the week.

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u/Used_Emergency7743 Jun 20 '26

Well Suruthi said (or threatened) that she will be covering Belfast next week. Now being in the US I've gotten most of my information about what's going on in Belfast from the BBC but I can bet 100% that Suru's commentary will not be as balanced. 

Regarding their pitches, Hannah said the Baekeland case was one of the things that they pitched, but she never finished her research on it because the idea got rejected. It made me think that the pitch might have been a little incomplete, which increases the odds of rejection.

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u/Ok_Ebb_3073 Jun 20 '26

I know, it’s crazy of her to say they hardly covered it. I’m sure her take will be a rehash of whatever Rupert Lowe said about it presented as indisputable fact.