What are the most left-wing BBC programs of the past 10 years or so?

[Jittlebags]

Ever Decreasing Diktats.

Sorry that was 40 years ago.

[MrMealDeal]

Are any posters old enough to recall the state of British television from the 70s or 80s to date with impressions of the ideological state of affairs over time?

Earlier this year there was a thread about the People Make Television exhibition on the BBC Community Unit in the 1970s. They got ordinary members of the public to make films about issues that concerned them. I don't think the BBC would dare make anything as radical today. There was a programme about trans rights which, allowing for the ignorance of the time, was far more sympathetic than today's media coverage.

https://ravenrow.org/exhibitions/people-make-television

[tribalfusion]

Earlier this year there was a thread about the People Make Television exhibition on the BBC Community Unit in the 1970s. They got ordinary members of the public to make films about issues that concerned them. I don't think the BBC would dare make anything as radical today. There was a programme about trans rights which, allowing for the ignorance of the time, was far more sympathetic than today's media coverage.

https://ravenrow.org/exhibitions/people-make-television

Thanks for posting that. The BBC Community Unit was definitely an interesting experiment at the time.

[salr]

Not sure it's explicity left wing, but about 6 months ago the BBC aired a short series called The Holy Land and Us about the formation of modern Israel. The programme gave a lot of time over to Palestinians made homless in 1948.

[Memorex MP3]

Does Storyville count?

Small Axe?

[confettiinmyhair]

Peaky Blinders. The main character Tommy Shelby becomes a Labour MP, his sister is a socialist activist, he fights against Oswald Mosley and the show has a relatively sympathetic portrayal of the traveller community and the working class struggle.

[Virgo76]

The Mash Report was generally pretty leftist, apart from Geoff Northcott's bits. Hence why it's no longer on.
BBC news coverage  strives to be impartial and mostly succeeds in this I think.

[superthunderstingcar]

Union with David Olusoga is a series that is superficially patriotic, starting with the title and saying how great the UK is, but then bang! Part three hits you with the reality of the 19th century, being about the Chartists and the Irish famine, not about empire and Rule Brittania at all.

[Tarquin]

Wes Streeting is made out of marge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx_l9o0i37c

[tribalfusion]

I appreciate all of the suggestions.

Is there non-BBC content any of you feel should be mentioned here?

[Villa_Gorilla]

Pointless

[tribalfusion]

Pointless

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I was only old enough to start taking an interest in politics by the very end of the 70s / early 80s. I tend to think that there was more working class representation in BBC drama then than there is now, but I don't have anything to back that up, it's just a feeling. Maybe I'm just thinking about Play for Today.

I grew up in the 90's/00's so kind of watched the tail end of ITV going from a bunch of co-operating regions to a uniform and centralised brand, and I think that probably was also a significant factor in working class representation falling, the regions outside of London that were capable of making good shows usually had bigger working class communities.