Gunpowder

The Crown 5×8

Prince William: You could get satellite TV... With hundreds of channels from all over the world.
Queen Elizabeth II: What? And abandon the BBC? I can't do that.
Prince William: You wouldn't be abandoning the BBC, Granny.
Queen Elizabeth II: Switching to satellite would be seen as a betrayal of the national broadcaster by the head of state. It would be treason. Like me becoming a Catholic.

Steve Hewlett: Of course, it's November 5th. Guy Fawkes night.
Martin Bashir: The significance of that date was not lost on me either.

Duke Hussey: ...whatever one may think of the royal family, she has been remarkable and doesn't, in my view, get the credit or the gratitude she deserves.
John Birt: And isn't that one of the many things that the BBC's for? To kiss the ring?
Duke Hussey: If you like. I can see it's an unfashionable line to take, but for better or worse, I believe it is part of the British character to have a monarchy. Take that away, huh, what are you left with?
John Birt: An egalitarian, modern republic?
Duke Hussey: But not Britain.
John Birt: A new Britain.
Duke Hussey: A different Britain. Not Great Britain. It's the same with the BBC. Take away the BBC, and what are you left with? A country, but not Britain. In that way, the two institutions, Crown and BBC, are inherently intertwined. Reflected, incidentally, in the fact that we exist thanks to a royal charter.

John Birt: You see the monarchy as part of the architecture of this country.
Duke Hussey: I do.
John Birt: But more and more people have grown to see it simply as part of the furniture. Something they've grown up with but not something that can't be rearranged. Thrown out, if need be, or replaced. And the same goes for the BBC. Poll after poll show that people are crying out for change from the post-war era into something much more--

Duke Hussey: To a crass, commercial, satellite era, controlled by Rupert Murdoch with limitless choice and a thousand different channels, all offering rubbish?

Martin Bashir: I guarantee she will talk to someone if not us. Ask yourself how you would feel if this went out on... CBS. Or ABC. Or ITV. Or Channel 4.
John Birt: Still, we'll be giving a platform to a very hurt, very unstable woman. Who clearly wants to inflict significant damage on the monarchy.
Steve Hewlett: In the end, it's going to be your call, John...

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