From Elsewhere: The BBC. The rich and the diverse like it, everyone else not so much.
The BBC has done some brilliant things in its past. I look back at what the corporation achieved over the years and I have…
Broadcasting
The value of ephemera in historical research and some modern broadcast ephemera.
The study of history is not an exact science. We know about the big things like the depravities of Kings such as Henry VIII,…
History time – A reminder that the British government has always disliked people having uncontrolled speech.
The current attempts by the British government to restrict what people say online via the Digital Harms Bill are I’m afraid nothing new. I…
What a difference. The BBC then and now
This post contains two BBC articles separated by almost eighty years. The first one is an audio recording of BBC reporter Charles Gardener’s coverage…
Defund the BBC
I used to believe that there were small parts of the BBC that could be saved, parts that were less dominated by political correctness…
On the ‘Panodrama’ furore
Please note: I have found a better quality version of the ‘Panodrama’ movie to that which I originally uploaded with this piece. Both the audio…
Another Muslim community radio station caught pumping out extremism
As I have said before on here (see links at bottom of article), Britain’s Islamic community radio stations have a serious extremism problem. Several…
Not politics now but a bit of old style radio anarchism – A brief look at The Laughing Policeman Wireless Society
As some may know or may have guessed from certain previous articles on the subject of dodgy Islamic community radio stations, that I have…
More over-lenient punishments for miscreant Muslims, this time from Ofcom.
This blog has carried several stories recently about how the courts seem to be imposing sentences on Muslim criminals that seem to be rather…
What is it with Muslim community radio stations and on air misbehaviour?
As someone with a long term hobbyist interest in radio, often as an Short/Medium Wave listener, my attention has been grabbed by the various…
