The BBC will lay off between 1,800 and 2,000 staff, roughly 10% of its current staff of 21,500 people. This is the biggest reduction since 2011. This was announced on Wednesday, April 15, by the company’s interim CEO, Rhodri Talvan-Davies, on BBC Radio 4.
He said the layoffs were part of a cost-cutting program totaling 500 million pounds (about $680 million) over the next two years. Davis also did not rule out closing channels or services completely, without specifying the details.
BBC Pictou union president Philippa Childs said “cuts of this magnitude” would be “devastating for both staff and the BBC as a whole”. message.
On 9 November 2025, BBC Director-General Tim Davie and Chief Executive Deborah Turness announced their resignation following criticism over the editing of a speech by US President Donald Trump.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Trump’s speech in the program, which was broadcast in October 2024 before the US presidential elections, was edited as if he was calling for the seizure of the Congress building, although in reality he was talking about the necessity of peaceful expression of citizenship.