The BBC has been coming in for rather a lot of stick recently, with a DG who lasted less than two months as a combination of scandal and mistake snowballed around him.
And yet, for me, the BBC is still today what it was yesterday, and I remain confident in its ability to deliver what I expect, and to be our flagship national broadcaster, of which we can be proud all around the world.
Now, that's not to downplay in any way some of the awful things that have come to light in recent months. We've discovered that someone we thought was a national treasure was actually a despicable individual who conned and deceived us all for his entire life. Mistakes were made - obviously at the time when those terrible events took place, and also in the later investigations and reporting.
It would be nice to think that society and the world at large has changed in the last generation or so, and that it would be impossible for anyone to get away with it now. Maybe that's a naive view, but even if it is, hopefully lessons are being learnt.
Anyway, the BBC can still deliver remarkable broadcasting, and it did so tonight with Fergus Walsh's film "The Mind Reader: Unlocking My Voice" which told the story of a number of patients who have suffered brain injury, and who had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
A new scanning technique has been developed to assess these patients, and for a minority of them, it is being discovered that despite all of the conclusions and diagnoses previously drawn, it is actually possible to communicate with them and for them to demonstrate consciousness and understanding of the world around them by asking them questions and gauging their responses through the patterns of their brain activity.
An awesome and inspiring story, told well. Thank you Fergus, and thank you BBC.
A summary of the story can be found here, and (presumably for a limited time only) the programme is on iplayer.