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Our mission, vision, and values inform the work of the BBC and are how we promote our public purposes.

The public purposes are set out by the Royal Charter and Agreement, the constitutional basis for the BBC.

Our mission

•  To enrich people's lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain.

Our vision

• To be the most creative organisation in the world.

Our values

• Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest.
• Audiences are at the heart of everything we do.
• We take pride in delivering quality and value for money.
• Creativity is the lifeblood of our organisation.
• We respect each other and celebrate our diversity so that everyone can give their best.
• We are one BBC: great things happen when we work together.
• The Royal Charter and Agreement also sets out six public purposes for the BBC. See Public purposes.

We run nine national TV services providing entertainment, news, current affairs and arts coverage for the whole of the UK.

Our output is available via digital TV, live online via channel websites and as video-on-demand via BBC iPlayer.

obscenity and transgresive

obscenity and transgresive

obscenity

an extremely offensive word or expression:

"the men scowled and muttered obscenities"

the state or quality of being obscene:

"the book was banned for obscenity"

transgresive

involving a violation of moral or social boundaries:

"her experiences of transgressive love with both sexes"

relating to art or literature in which orthodox moral, social, and artistic boundaries are challenged by the representation of unconventional behaviour and the use of experimental forms.

"the contrast of such transgressive films with their mainstream counterparts should be clear"