Dear BBC
Happy 90th birthday today.
We only wish you were celebrating it under happier circumstances.
Thanks for 90 years of great (and not-so-great) programming, the world's best radio service, the Proms, your orchestras, your community projects, a number of brilliant news scoops, some great books and magazines, Attenborough, your technological innovations like the iPlayer, CEEFAX and NICAM, some great comedy your oral history and community projects, your unstinting support for new music, for new writers, and for pissing off your enemies so royally.
You're very far from perfect but you're a lot better than anyone else, and you have made made an incalculable contribution to the cultural life of this country - furthermore you are the only world-class brand Britain still has left and an invaluable export.
Here's to another 90 glorious years and here's hoping you soon get the competent management you deserve and which has been so lacking these past two decades and more.
Love,
A large proportion of the British public (not just the loud shouty ones who are always moaning or who have a vested interest) xxx
Posted on: 19 November 2012 by George Fredrik
I wonder if certain posters on this forum have any comment to make ....
Dear Kevin,
I have answered that on this thread already. I am not going to repeat everything I have written in this thread, because you did not read what I wrote first time.
ATB from George
Posted on: 19 November 2012 by Redmires
Let's get back on topic eh !
I've just listened to "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue". That's worth the licence fee on its own.
Has anyone ever been to a live BBC recording ? I've seen ISIHAC a few times but never seem to be able to get tickets for "Just a Minute".
Posted on: 19 November 2012 by George Fredrik
Dear Redmires,
I was merely answering a point by the thread starter, so I am sorry that you felt to need to post an "off topic" alert.
I missed that one. "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"
Usually I listen to Radio Four all the time, when not enjoying music or silence, but have tired of the whole thing, since the Savile and Newsnight scandals. These days it seems less distasteful to me to browse the newspaper news online instead - to keep up with events.
ATB from George
Posted on: 19 November 2012 by Redmires
No problem George, I was not having a go at you. Sometimes topics do wander off course though, and it's probably a subject (child abuse) that warrants its own thread.
Posted on: 19 November 2012 by George Fredrik
Dear Redmires,
I suggested that a while ago on this thread.
Personally I would not start such a thread, but if I can add anything of substance to one started by someone else then I surely would, as it - as you may have worked out - is a subject on which I have clearly defined views.
ATB from George
Posted on: 19 November 2012 by Don Atkinson
Originally Posted by Redmires:
Let's get back on topic eh !
I've just listened to "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue". That's worth the licence fee on its own.
Has anyone ever been to a live BBC recording ? I've seen ISIHAC a few times but never seem to be able to get tickets for "Just a Minute".
I used to be a regular in the audience at their "Folk 73" and "Folk 74" recordings. (way back in '73 and '74 of course). Quite an eye-opener. Some artists - one-take. Others..................
But the quality was superb.
Cheers
Don
Posted on: 19 November 2012 by Christopher_M
Absolutely Don.
I attended a couple of recordings in the late eighties of The News Quiz at the Paris theatre, chaired by Barry Took. He was hilarious about the incompetence of some of the big names on the show. Naturally these bits were edited out.
Chris
Posted on: 19 November 2012 by fatcat
Originally Posted by George Fredrik:
I wonder if certain posters on this forum have any comment to make ....
Dear Kevin,
I have answered that on this thread already. I am not going to repeat everything I have written in this thread, because you did not read what I wrote first time.
ATB from George
Hmm.
Happens all too often. People are far more concerned with getting their views across. Not interested in reading or understanding others point of view.
Rather silly I'd say.
Posted on: 02 December 2012 by George Fredrik
Dear Mark,
Quite good, and no doubt Radio Four will survive properly! But I have not tuned in for some time.
Let's see if the new DG can sort out the parade, and then I be graqtefully back with the best Radio station in the World - just my opinion of course.
ATB from George
