‘The thought is unbearable’: Europeans react to EU plans to cut British TV

EU media critics say post-Brexit plans could pave way for more homegrown content

It was during a trip to Brighton for an English language course in 1984 that the young German student Nicola Neumann first discovered British television.

The elderly couple who put me up tried really hard to educate me further, so we'd sit in front of the telly together every evening and then talk about the programmes afterwards," she said.