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meanwhile, a former government adviser and eminent epidemiologist, professor mark woolhouse , has toldold the uk covid inquiry this week that the bbc was allowed to misrepresent the risk posed by covid to most people to boost public support for lockdown. he lambasted the corporation for having repeatedly reported rare deaths or illnesses among healthy adults, as if they were the norm. he said this created the misleading impression among bbc news viewers at the start of the pandemic that we're all at risk and the virus does not discriminate. of course, we were discovered that it very much does so can we still trust the bbc? i'm delighted to welcome former bbc radio star alex dyke. alex, great to have you on the show. is the bbc political be biased? do you think ? i think biased? do you think? i think it's impossible for the bbc to be impartial. >> all the time. mark, there's 21,000 people working for the bbc and we're human and we sometimes can't help if our opinions spill over into the workplace. i think the bbc try and maybe they try too hard. um, but , uh, and maybe they try too hard

meanwhile, a former government adviser and eminent epidemiologist, professor mark woolhouse , has toldhouse, has told the uk covid inquiry this week that the bbc was allowed to misrepresent the risk posed by covid to most people to boost public support for lockdown. he lambasted the corporation for having repeatedly reported rare deaths or illnesses among healthy adults, as if they were the norm. he said this created the misleading impression among bbc news viewers at the start of the pandemic that we're all at risk and the virus does not discriminate. of course, we were discovered that it very much does so can we still trust the bbc? i'm delighted to welcome former bbc radio star alex dyke. alex, great to have you on the show. is the bbc political be biased? do you think ? i think biased? do you think? i think it's impossible for the bbc to be impartial. >> all the time. mark, there's 21,000 people working for the bbc and we're human and we sometimes can't help if our opinions spill over into the workplace. i think the bbc try and maybe they try too hard. um, but , uh, and maybe they

uh, so this top scientist, professor mark woolhouse, who's speaking at the at the inquiry, uh , so hey, uh, so he lambasted the corporation for having repeatedly lambasted do you see. yeah. apparently the bbc repeatedly, repeatedly reports rare deaths or illnesses among healthy adults as if they were the norm. and this created the misleading impression among bbc news viewers. the start of the pandemic, that we're all at risk and the virus does not discriminate. i remember people saying that does not saying that the virus does not discriminate has rarely been a virus discriminated more. virus that discriminated more. >> absolutely . >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> were pretty much >> young people were pretty much untouched and like old people, i mean, a 10,000 times difference. if you're over 70, a 75, you're 10,000 times more likely to die than if you're under 15. so yeah, i mean, and that is including all the other things you might have died of beforehand. >> yeah. you know, which are going to be you've got to put you ahead the 15. i think you ahead of the 15. i think it's it is it'

professor mark woolhouse, government adviser and top epidemiologist, railed against the corporation forhealthier people as the norm . they were people as the norm. they were not, he argues that the bbc characterised covid as indiscriminate. it . was not. i indiscriminate. it. was not. i wonder how that one slipped past bbc verify the most egregiously, if professor woolhouse is right that the beeb's reporting of covid helped support for the case for lockdowns, then the national state broadcaster is in part culpable for the extraordinary damage this extraordinary damage to this country that these debateable measures . to measures have seen. to paraphrase mr nocti , that sounds paraphrase mr nocti, that sounds pretty worrying to me . if pretty worrying to me. if woolhouse is right, the beeb should not have been selling a policy which has led to a destroyed economy, a mental health tsunami, an nhs waiting list of 8 million people and a generation of damaged kids. so bbc radio legend james naughtie is worried about gb news well, he's right to be because we're not going anywhere and we're gro