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Anyone else listen to the "Leftie drivel" ?

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I am talking about Polly Jean Harvey & her slot as guest editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Contrary to what many of you probably believe i don't listen to Hip Hop & Old skool rave music all day & often have Radio 4 on in the background if i am pottering around the house .

Well on the 2nd of January i was well impressed that the BBC had let one of my Hero's both musically & as a person guest edit The Flagship Radio 4 Today Programme.

It's a long show (3 hours ) but i think that anyone with even a passing interest in Politics & a bit of controversy should give it a listen while it is still on BBC iplayer.

Suffice to say the Daily Mail despised ithttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532969/Drivel-PJ-Harvey-accused-filling-BBC-Radio-4s-Today-programme-leftie-tosh.html#socialLinks

That's their opinion on it .

I thought it was brave of the BBC to give PJ total control & found the programme thought provoking to say the least .

Thought for the day with ex Arch Bishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams was a stand out bit for me .

What are yours ?
 
Yes and it was brilliant. Hilarious it got loads of complaints when other guest editors that week were some leading bloke from Barclays and several other right-wing nonces.

As someone pointed out in some comments column I read, far more sinister is the fact that Radio 4 did NOT allow Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of tinternet) to have an atheist speaker on his 'thought for the day' section.

Well done for promoting this Mr Brimz, you're a star.

Now what's the chances when I hit send it says "server busy"? (About 100-1 on, or roughly, the same probablility that Man Utd will not qualify for the Champions league)

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Took me longer than I'd like to realise who you were on about, ha. Seen her live back in 2001, didn't know she did this, gonna have to give it a listen when I'm at my parents later this week and have decent internet. Great of the Mail to complain about this whilst Liz fucking Jones is titting about on Celeb Big Brother.
 
yes i caught it - and it was excellent. i particularly liked how she got a bloke from the people's assembly to do a bit about the corruption of the city of london corporation in the business section - you could hear the cringe in the voice of the regular presenters; and making sure they emphasised it was pj's choices at every opportunity.

To hear mark curtis, john pilger and julian assange on radio 4, without editing and being shouted down by the usual right-wing bias from the presenters was brilliant (academically-proven right wing bias according to some recent research i read)

And to think of the usual daily mail fantasy that the bbc is left wing - how did they even notice the difference if that was true?

btw - if you don't know mark curtis' books, they're some of the best modern history of our lovely country's foreign policy available. 'Web of deceit' and 'unpeople' are excellent overviews of the truth of what we've got up to abroad - largely derived from released uk government documents (sort of like chomsky, but focused on britain (and a bit more like history). His last one 'secret affairs' tells the story of our support for (or our part in the creation of) islamic terrorism - right up to our entanglements with abus hamza and qutada (i.e. when they more or less worked for us) - everyone should read it.
 
i missed the show itself but saw a feature on bbc news24 about it in the 'whats in the papers' section, apparently Today had a load of guest presenters over the holiday season from all shades of the political spectrum. The Torygraph and The Daily Fail are allways very predictable in their constant right wing propoganda machines. 8)

IIRC PJ Harvey is local to your area isnt she brimz ? I saw them live in Bristol and they were as good as you'd expect.
 
Good to hear polly is sticking it up the toffs :)
I must tune in to the webcast from over here in shitville
 
brimz said:
Contrary to what many of you probably believe i don't listen to Hip Hop & Old skool rave music all day & often have Radio 4 on in the background if i am pottering around the house .
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hehe, Brimz. You're some joker. Made me lol :)






Anyway, to the point:



 
raas_2012 said:
hehe, Brimz. You're some joker. Made me lol :)
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Is listening to R4 especially funny? I've hardly ever listened to it but mainly cos I don't listen to the radio at all really. Did listen to R4 for a brief period years back when I was living in some utter shithole of a room in a shared house. Was bastard freezing (no heating) and almost totally bare - just a bed from memory. No telly or place to plug an aerial in or owt so radio it was and R4 seemed the best option.
 
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This is Brimz. Mr Brim-I-smoke-crack-to-wake-me-up-in-the-morning-and-smack-to-see-me-off-to-bed-at-night-Zini. Most hardcore druggie on the forum. Pound for pound, nearly taken as many drugs as you. Blessed every EADD thread with a hip-hop embedded youtube gangsta rap song..


LISTENING TO THE DELIGHTFUL DULCET TONES OF POLLY JEAN HARVEY ON RADIO 4...

lmao
 
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raas_2012 said:
This is Brimz. Mr Brim-I-smoke-crack-to-wake-me-up-in-the-morning-and-smack-to-see-me-off-to-bed-at-night-Zini.
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Which is precisely what I was doing during the time I mentioned above. Still don't really get your point unless this is a stereotype I'm not aware of? Does using heroin and crack mean that you are incapable of listening to Women's Hour? Or of having a Thought For the Day?

I'm pretty sure Brimz has mentioned liking PJ Harvey before unless memory fails (which it often does so...). Got good taste has that fella :)

(she's a bit of a local lass down brimz' way too)
 
aye Yeovil town. SW region atleast.

Stereotypes. :sus: I love confounding peoples expectations and doing / saying what theyd least expect sometimes. Maybe just to try to assert that im not a fucking stereotype, just as neither is anyone else of course. I get your style Shambles now, its not just me you pull up on the odd wawyard post, the whole forum is pretty demanding of a high standard really, and can be quite unforgiving of any wayward posts sometimes.

Because my Dad lived on a council estate officialdom refused to believe that he didnt have a TV licence because he didnt have a TV, everyone on a council estate has a TV, no one would choose to listen to the radio or read books instead would they ? He got several checks and visits before they finally believed him and left him alone.
 
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Because my Dad lived on a council estate officialdom refused to believe that he didnt have a TV licence because he didnt have a TV, everyone on a council estate has a TV, no one would choose to listen to the radio or read books instead would they ? He got several checks and visits before they finally believed him and left him alone.
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Aren't you supposed to have a licence if you listen to radio too? Been ages since I've been hassled by the TV Licence people cos they finally accepted I really don't have a television set up to watch television. I do, however, possess a radio. Not that I ever use it, I have vague memories of it being something like you do still have to have a licence if you only use the radio but it's a lot cheaper than a TV Licence (also the case if you are blind which I've always thought was a bit mean). Same argument as to why you can't have a television without a licence even if you never watch BBC channels.

And yes, it's really not just you that I pull up and get all nitpicky and anal over stuff. It's never personal - I'm an equal opportunities irritant. I'm just rather opinionated is all ;)
 
No licence needed for radio. Black and white licences are cheaper though. Or they were, not seen a black and white telly since I was in my loft.

£145.50 for colour and £49.00 for black and white
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Seems only fair that everyone should be able to receive at least a little state propaganda even if they can't afford a TV licence.


A similar licence, mandated by the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904, used to exist for radios powered by mains electricity (sets using a battery or accumulator did not need a licence), but this was abolished in 1971, when it was £1.25 (£18.36 in 2014 prices). These licences were originally issued by the General Post Office (GPO), which was then the regulator of public communications within the UK. For a more detailed historical explanation see British Broadcasting Company.
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Even I'm not old enough to remember wireless licences.

SHM probably has one though ;)
 
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I had a ghettoblaster type affair which included a tiny (6" I think) B&W telly when I was a kid. I thought it was the bestest thing in the world at the time cos it meant I could watch Spitting Image in bed (wasn't usually allowed to cos it was past my bedtime). Not entirely sure how I managed to acquire such a thing cos we were not a well-off family and I presume it was bloody expensive in its day. Think it must've been summat Daddy Dearest was given to repair (he had a sideline fixing electronic goods) and decided to keep it instead and didn't actually want it himself maybe. I wasn't complaining however it was that I ended up with it :D
 
Ahhh, the wireless. The original Wi-Fi. Embarrassingly I do remember radio licenses. And dog licenses.

Wirelesses were unhip until they became the transistor radio. Tranny had a more innocent connotation in those days. 1863 I think it was.
 
1863 lol.

I think dog licences still exist ? I wonder what they do these days if someone has no TV but they have a pc with internet, obviously this can be used for watching some TV, but the person may choose not to watch any TV, how can this be enforced does anyone know ?
 
You can watch TV on your computer and not have a license, just keep quiet about it. Nobody has ever been hassled for this like people get hassled for having a TV.

Dog thingies went out in 1984.
 
According to TV Licensing, "You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, digital box, DVD or video recorder, PC, laptop or mobile phone to watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV".[22] Portable televisions and similar equipment such as laptops and mobile phones powered by internal batteries are covered for use anywhere under a licence held for their owner's residence.[23]
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According to Ofcom, TV transmissions over the Internet are a grey area[33] which in future might make fees based on television ownership redundant. In 2005, a Green Paper by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport[34] included suggestions of "either a compulsory levy on all households or even on ownership of PCs as well as TVs".[35] However, TV Licensing have since stated that use of any device (including a computer or mobile phone) receiving transmissions at or about the same time as they appear on TV requires a licence.[22][30] The BBC is aware that new technology represents a threat to its revenue. A recent BBC report states "there is a continued threat to the growth in TV Licence sales from the increasing number of people consuming television in a way that does not need to be licensed".[36]
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I'm sure they simply can't enforce it as things stand. I suppose some people grass other people and take videos of it :?
 
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