Its possible that the license fee is on some sort of managed decline, he said.
There are vested interests lobbying and campaigning for a Brexit from the license fee .
Instead, Theroux urged te audience to spread the word and advocate for the BBC.

Louis TherouxEdinburgh TV Festival
Streamers arent doing local news or Britain-focused doc making, he said.
It is a guilty secret that youd rather not do but it can happen, he said.
It was like being in a fugue state, he added of delivering ths speech.

Im not a polemicist this is the opposite of what I normally do.
I used to want to be invisible, to be a cipher-like presence in films, an enigmatic questioner.