30/04/2016 The Papers

Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers

With me are the political commentator Jo Phillips

and Benedicte Paviot, who's the UK correspondent for France 24.

Tomorrow's front pages starting with...

The Sunday Express says the Portuguese detective who led

attempts to find Madeline McCann will release a new book

on the investigation, bringing fresh anguish to the family.

The Sunday Mail says the BBC will be forbidden to

schedule primetime programmes at the same time as its rivals,

The Sunday Telegraph also leads with the

BBC's Royal Charter, saying the corporation will face more checks

The Times says the new Israeli Ambassador to Britain has

That's where we start, we are expecting the Charter renewal white

paper in the next couple of weeks from the government. Some suggestion

as to what might be in it, this is the Sunday mail's take on it. The

suggestion that rivals will be allowed to schedule when they want

to put programmes on and the BBC will have to move there is. Which is

extraordinary. This is clearly a leak because it's not just four or

five pages in The Mail on Sunday -- theirs. These are unprecedented new

checks. That white paper I gather is due to be published on May the 12.

One of the examples that the Mail on Sunday gives is for example Strictly

Come Dancing will not be able to be in the prime Saturday night slot

because it's causing problems for its rival, X Factor. This is

extraordinary. What's the BBC is supposed to do? One of our Twitter

viewers, Tim Joshua, says what will happen to the Paper Review, will

that have to change because it clashes with another channel? As

popular as we are and as much as we love the Paper Review, I don't think

we are as big as Britain's Got Talent. I was talking about paper

reviews at a similar time on another channel. I see, I'm a bit slow. The

BBC shouldn't be promoting itself with trailers. The BBC has been

accused in the past at times of being aggressively commercial, and

having the advantage of a licence fee, which commercial TV networks

don't have. There is an argument, the counterargument is that instead

of chasing audiences and going up against X factor and Strictly, you

should be spending licence payers' money on high-quality drama and

documentaries and things like that -- X Factor. Rather than going for

bums on seats and big ratings. Then we have the reverse of that, if the

quality isn't good enough then the Sunday Telegraph said the BBC would

face checks into how well its programmes are performing. Also

there's the suggestion that the next charter will be for an 11 year

period. That's the best that came from the House of Lords, taking

charter renewal out of sync with the election cycle. It is the second

longest ever if this is right, because in 1981 Margaret Thatcher

gave the corporation 15 years. It is to break that sync with fixed term

parliaments so it stops becoming a political battle. It gives the BBC

more certainty over funding, so we know at the moment it is taking on

costs from the government in the form of the over 75s licence fee.

This will please many who think the BBC has got too big and too

imperial. And it's not doing enough distinctive programming and trying

to compete too much with whether its ITV or Skype or Amazon in fact. --

it's. The 15 year guarantee... 11 year charter renewal. Yes, as the

Sunday Telegraph says, that will relieve the anxiety is among BBC

executives. It gives some certainty that the anxiety among. It will get

a re-examination after five years anyway -- the anxiety among. There

are some areas where the BBC is trying to copy too much or have too

much rivalry. If all of this is true it does seem like it is coming down

to hard on the BBC. Many people would disagree. People do disagree.

A lot of other channels across the world do this. Let's stay with the

Telegraph. The PM's academy deal for rebels. The idea that all state

schools in England should become academies is not going down well in

some Conservative seats, Jo. It's not going down anywhere particularly

well. It's not going down well with teachers, it's not going down well

with local authorities. A report out last week said local authorities...

Schools run by local authorities are doing much better. Better than they

were? Better than they were and better than academies. The real

problem has come for David Cameron in the form that he's facing a

massive rebellion. The leader of Kent county council, which still has

the 11 plus in fact, was very, very heavily critical the other day. This

is about rural schools who could face closure if they're not

supported by the local authority. They could close. Then you got the

cost of rural transport, the death of small villages and things. It is

popular with some, because some parents really want their school to

have control over their own budgets? Yes, some do. There's a

growing mood... And we see here after Morgan was heckled actually at

that conference, that the national association of head teachers has now

voted in favour of considering industrial action in protest at all

schools becoming academies. They could shut for a day or so. The

Observer now, anti-Semitism row could hit poll hopes, Siddique Khan,

the Labour candidate for London mayor. It is feasible that Jewish

people in London might turn away from the Labour Party. This is an

interview with the Observer. With only four days to go until the

mayoral action in London, we must remember there are other elections,

but this is damaging to Labour. Sadik Khan is worried tens of

thousands of Jewish voters in the capital may feel unable to back

him. With Ken Livingstone's remarks about Zionism and Hitler, this story

has been running since Thursday morning. We have this enquiry led by

Shanle chakra party, a very respected director of the Civil

Liberties group Liberty, but that will take time. It's interesting

because in an interview with the Jewish Chronicle, Khan said Labour

had to move away from its unacceptable anti-Jewish stance. He

was saying that a year ago. He also took quite happily the endorsement

of Ken Livingstone when he was standing to beam Labour's mayoral

candidate in the London elections. That to be. If it runs for this many

days it has become the story, as Alistair Campbell said, and has

become the centre of it -- to be. Staying with the Observer, the UK in

the throes of a housing crisis. That's alarming in a country like

this were four in ten say they don't believe they will ever own a home,

it's a bit of a national obsession, which must look ridiculous in France

from times. Certainly very different because in France really you

rent... Some people buy but the custom is to rent. It does seem

somewhat of an obsession. It's very worrying, it's clearly a housing

crisis, it's been important at the last general election and it is

certainly very important there is certainly very important there's no

doubt in London. It is overpriced and overcrowded. So many governments

have said they know the need to tackle it, not just this one but

before it the coalition and labour, it's an issue of supply and aren't.

It has become a crisis but the Guardian and the Observer are

obsessed with house prices, in the way that the Daily Express used to

be, and to a certain extent this is a London centric storage. But London

is the capital of England, and you are looking into a problem now that

isn't so much about buying a house or getting on the ladder, it's the

astronomical cost of private rent -- a London centric story. You've got a

triple whammy, no housing and the right to buy council housing. You

have council houses going up a staggering rate. House prices as

well. No government did anything to stop the buy to let boom. We do have

helped to buy, we have helped to buy ices where the government will

contribute to savings and the shared ownership idea. -- ISAs. Sometimes

it's not as difficult as the media would imply to get onto the housing

ladder. That's right. It does seem to be a real London problem and it's

a serious London problem because the workers can no longer afford on

their meagre salaries to live in London. Or even on a fairly decent

salary by national standards. Sunday Times, MPs summoned the no green

from Monaco after the BHS collapse. Tell us about this -- Tina Green.

This is slightly disingenuous, the headline, when you read the story.

It's intended she will be called to give evidence to MPs after the

collapse of BHS. There are two select committees, the Work and

Pensions and business and innovation who have written to her husband, Sir

Philip, asking him to appear, and last night both committees said they

wanted to invite Lady Green... She lives in Monaco, is a Monaco

resident, and is the owner of the retail empire run by Sir Philip.

According to the Mail and the googling we've been doing. Her

husband runs it and she owns it, it's a perfectly legitimate way of

organising things. But we know this high-street brand is in deep

trouble. Terrible trouble, and has been for some times. There's nothing

that can force you to go to a Select Committee. But it is very poor form

not to attend. And when you're British, it's not somebody who is

foreign Nationals wherever you pay your taxes -- a foreign national.

Let's look at a very exciting story. Not the housing prices. A

city on tenterhooks. This afternoon Leicester City can complete

football's greatest fairy tale with an unlikely first league triumph,

excitement is at fever pitch as they go to Old Trafford. An amazing

story, little Leicester have done so well this season. Leicester City, in

the relegation zone last year, and they are now poised to take the

league. It's fantastic. If they beat Manchester United tomorrow afternoon

then they have done it and they still have two games in hand. It's

great because it's what football is about, it's about the little guy

coming up and it's lovely. Chelsea have sunk right down, Manchester

United have had a terrible up and down season. It's really shaken it

up and they've done it with great grace and their manager, Ranieri, is

just fantastic and an example to so many other money managers. I'm

delighted and I'm sorry to know that I can't get a Vardycino, in a coffee

bar there, cappuccino subtly modified so the chocolate powder

settles to form an uncanny silhouette of Jamie Vardy on the

froth. He won't be on the froth because he won't be playing

tomorrow. He will be on the bench because he is banned. What caught my

eye is the ?2 bet on Leicester that could net ?45,000. A gambler that

that to pounce on them winning the Premier League, and also Bayern

Munich winning the Champions League, so this could net him

?45,000. The double it up with the Bayern one. There's a Leicester fan

called John, editor-in-chief of the Bloomberg News, former editor of the

Economist, he's kicking himself for missing out on a ?110,000 win. Why?

For the last 20 years he has put a ?20 bet on Leicester taking the

title but this year he didn't. Why? Because he moved to New York, the

big bad apple. What a missed opportunity. We had a very large, so

large it is rather vulgar in scale, an 8-foot flag that will be from our

window if they are successful tomorrow. Will you be drinking any

Vardycinos? Absolutely. I'm always thrilled when Lester's teams do very

well. Of course I am. The Tigers doing well as well. That's the

papers tonight. -- Leicester's teams. Coming up next it is The Film

Review. Thank you for joining me.