The BBC

can see why govt wants to reduce this bastion of left wing opposition, the moral conscience of the nation

"On the trail of a tenancy cheat"

They should do a series about rich people buying up discounted social housing to make a killing on the open market, for the sake of fairness. "The BBC strives to be fair to all... etc x0===

agree 100000000000000000000000000%

where is the fucking prestige doc on this, it touches basically everyone's lives

> They should do a series about rich people buying up discounted social housing to make a killing on the open market

homes under the hammer

https://twitter.com/BBCNewsMagazine/status/739839557487763456

if not in bad taste, the tone of this is certainly pretty weird, right?

yeah it is. feels like it's biting on US style true crime programmes, but BBC+English setting makes it feel weird, and the whole thing is a bit queasy.

#content

a friend just shared this

http://tonygarnett.info/tony-garnett-on-the-bbc-files/?platform=hootsuite

fascinating insight into the historical politics of the Beeb

Rona's off:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/13/rona-fairhead-to-stand-down-as-bbc-chair

The favourite to take over is currently chairman of BAE Systems - though he has formally ruled himself out already.

I don't know where else to say this, but Andrew Neil's obvious delight when Trump started pulling ahead made me so fucking angry and it was hard to not start yelling at the TV at about 4:30am. Always hated that fucker.

hard to imagine what common ground andrew neil might share with a man with uniquely awful hair, a baseball cap fetish and a penchant for younger women

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/andrew-neil.jpg

Yup. Andrew Neil is...not good. (Trying to manage my anger today).

just caught the end of ITV news at 10, and one of their Washington correspondents going in on Trump surprisingly hard, noting that Trump "had the active support of the KKK" and was key in popularising the "racist birther myth", warns against "normalizing" Trump.

The same cunt who wanted to check asylum seekers' teeth to see how old they were, I believe:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3921030/Tory-MP-leads-furious-backlash-against-BBC-biased-coverage-Donald-Trump-s-election.html

Christ, when someone makes the BBC look left wing you know you are really dealing with absolute scum. That ITV Washington correspondent should have also mentioned that Trump had the active backing of NAMBLA, or least that was what was reported on the election thread a couple of months back.

I guess the ITV guy has the advantage of knowing that David Davies MP and the Mail are not going to be taking him to task for alleged bias if he says anything critical/accurate about Trump.

Expressing his anger at the BBC, Mr Davies told WalesOnline: 'All I know about Donald Trump is what I've seen through the British media, which is heavily biased against him.
'On the BBC it was clear that the TV presenters were appalled by his election.
'Yet many millions – half the American voters – must have believed they had good reasons for voting for him. Let's wait and see how he performs in the job before condemning him out of hand.'

jeez, what an oaf. (does he not have an internet connection? surely that would allow him to bypass Britain's biased media and find out some information about Trump from a more trustworthy source)

UK politicians who have officially come out as being on the Trump train: Farage (obviously), Jacob Rees Mogg, David Davies - anyone else?

... Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon

I don't think that hamfisted Corbyn/Milne statement was actually meant to sound pro-Trump tbf, but yeah it does sound a bit like courting the legit-concernists, which is quite depressing.

Corbyn statement just seemed like an example of the evergreen "the lesson of this big event is that my pre-existing political views are correct" bit that everyone from every part of the political spectrum does when something dramatic happens. Liberals and conservatives are all doing their own version of this as well.

Any media savvy person would know that the line about punishing political elites would sound like a Trump endorsement on this day though? Mind when your Communications expert is Seumas Milne, just expect inept garbage every time there is a press release and you might still be disappointed.

the existence of BBC4 enables BBC2 to get stupider and shitter, once BBC4 becomes wall to wall Awesome AOR Sounds of the 70s and Scando versions of The Bill the Beeb will have to make a new highbrow channel and so on and on until infinity or the licence money trickles away to nothing

this is coming soon, no idea if it will be any good of course

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/civilisations

love Beard, hate Schama, don't know the other guy's work but I'm grateful for pretty much any history doc that doesn't have Tony Robinson in it

Bartlett is good as well imo. Schama is a fucking tool and a crap writer, crap historian to boot. Just a perfect match for the BBC in this era, really.

The A Word really fucks me off. Lets stick to the N Hornby parameters of cutesy twee autism in middle class boys that is already total cliche, and then have the gall to label it "challenging drama".

god i could not watch that programme, musical cringe factor was so strong i was pleading with my wife to turn it off after two minutes. keep that shit on 6music where it belongs and i never have to hear it

yeah I have seen no need to engage with that cobblers until some well-meaning randomer will reference it to me at work

not even going to guesstimate the number of times people have asked me "have you read The Curious Case of that Dog?"

Come come, we should all be pleased to pay our licence fees for programming like this http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jxnv4

Oscar-winning Dame Judi Dench is one of Britain's best-loved actresses, but few people know that Judi holds another great passion, a deep love for trees. This programme, filmed over the course of a year, is a magical study of the changing seasons and their effect on Surrey, the most-wooded county in Britain. Judi has long been fascinated with trees...

Judi Dench: My Passion for Wood

Youth Hosteling with Chris Eubank

Jason Manford Goes Dogging

Impossible to see the join between schedule and satire there tbh if indeed it's happened yet

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/a-top-bbc-journalist-has-quit-as-china-editor-and-accused

She’s right on all points I think, but at the same time there’s something amazing about an organisation where you can publically quit and write a fuck-you open letter to your employers ... yet also continue to work there.

yikes. there are some bbc managers who take the gender pay gap quite seriously and are sorting it before the next financial year. and then i guess there are those who aren't.

i loved murder at the lucky holiday hotel, btw, everyone should listen to it.

Get away, well I never etc

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/25/bbcs-steph-mcgovern-says-she-would-earn-more-if-she-was-posher

"McGovern, the daughter of a teacher and radiographer"

gonna stick my neck out here Steph and say you're not really working class

She needs to get onto Lauren Laverne’s agent.

Posh people getting paid more was built into British currency at one time, right? Because genteel people were paid in guineas whereas pounds/shillings/pence for everyone else.

Lauren Laverne is a similarly son/daughter of toil as Maconie is. i.e. regional accent but basically posh!

I know that! Tongue firmly in cheek (although her parents’ dads were both miners).

sorry suzy, I should have known better!

This is amazing:

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk

The BBC has put 16000 sound effects from their archive online for download.

I will spend the weekend turning “Snow' surface grinder operating at steel works 1969” into an ambient techno record,

I'm looking for Humphrys Death Rattle wav, but no luck. This is actually pretty good tbf!

"'Snow' surface grinder operating at steel works 1969" and "'Cock-a-doodle-doo' ships' sirens sounded" are both excellent, and this is only the first page.

I've always liked sirens, looking forward to listening to all 223 siren recordings on here

"Specially created electronic sound" is a good search term for radiophonic workshop type stuff

Having a hard time finding hauntological sounds in here with the 1.0 search function. There should be plenty but the keywords aren't matching.

A great thing for BBC to share though, regardless.

every time BBC4 repeats the documentary Doris Day: Virgin Territory that title looks uglier and stupider and uglier

Good point. It’s kind of amazing how much I’ve turned on this institution in the last two years.

The fucking state of them these days, all I can think of is people I really want to die and more people i really want to die and I'm paying for this shit!

still instinctively think the BBC is a good thing as an institution but the TV landscape is complicated enough in 2018 and god knows these dicks aren't doing much to make their own case