not even going to guesstimate the number of times people have asked me "have you read The Curious Case of that Dog?"
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
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...
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
Judi Dench: My Passion for Wood
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
Youth Hosteling with Chris Eubank
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
Jason Manford Goes Dogging
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
Impossible to see the join between schedule and satire there tbh if indeed it's happened yet
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
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.
― stet, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 7 January 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
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
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
"McGovern, the daughter of a teacher and radiographer"
gonna stick my neck out here Steph and say you're not really working class
― smashong pumpgong (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 February 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Lauren Laverne is a similarly son/daughter of toil as Maconie is. i.e. regional accent but basically posh!
― calzino, Monday, 26 February 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
I know that! Tongue firmly in cheek (although her parents’ dads were both miners).
― kim jong deal (suzy), Monday, 26 February 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
sorry suzy, I should have known better!
― calzino, Monday, 26 February 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
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,
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 20 April 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
I'm looking for Humphrys Death Rattle wav, but no luck. This is actually pretty good tbf!
― calzino, Friday, 20 April 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
"'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
― soref, Friday, 20 April 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
"Specially created electronic sound" is a good search term for radiophonic workshop type stuff
― soref, Friday, 20 April 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
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.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 20 April 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
every time BBC4 repeats the documentary Doris Day: Virgin Territory that title looks uglier and stupider and uglier
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 August 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
Good point. It’s kind of amazing how much I’ve turned on this institution in the last two years.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 3 August 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Friday, 3 August 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
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
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 August 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
I don't think it is at all tbh. But my levels of hatred for them has gone through the roof in recent years. Refusing to report on that BMJ paper last year was the absolute tipping point for me. Not even going talk about their drama dept, but I'm still a heavy R3/4/5/WS user, and perhaps some of that content wouldn't happen on a commercial broadcaster, so will grudgingly admit it still does some unique stuff!
― calzino, Friday, 3 August 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
although I'd completely remove 5Live from that, as it doesn't seem any different to TalkSport these days, although at least they have taken the burden paying Motson a wage now.
― calzino, Friday, 3 August 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
difference is my DAB radio doesn't pick up TalkSport so well
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 August 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
good radio
― calzino, Friday, 3 August 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
it was annoying once the BBC decided not to pay for radio coverage of non-Prem games!
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 August 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
any reason why the Beeb seems to be broadcasting coverage of this pitiful boxing cosplay i first heard of a couple of hours ago?
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 25 August 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
the reason seems to be "Stephen Nolan likes to pretend to be exasperated for money" but
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 25 August 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Is that any way describe a Papal visit?
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 August 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
"When Crouch was 'dissed' by Prince Harry"
ho ho ho lol etc... arrrgh! fucking privatise these cunts already.
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 08:58 (five years ago) link
Can add this deleted tweet to the pile now. pic.twitter.com/t2NosOwAZa— Tom Mills (@ta_mills) October 29, 2018
― brokenshire (jed_), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
so sick of politically correct whinging about death squads
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
I've not seen one mention of the United Nations rapporteur arriving to investigate extreme poverty in the UK. Another one for the dossier to be read to them before they are lined up against the wall.
― calzino, Friday, 9 November 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
This is atrocious:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/46147166
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 9 November 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
emily maitlis, how that boot taste
― i want donald duck to scream into my dick (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 November 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
another one for the dossier.
― calzino, Friday, 9 November 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
I've been in high-pressure press conferences. And the art is to ask the single most succinct question that will land you the best possible response.
lol, good advice!
― calzino, Friday, 9 November 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
never mind pertinent questions, you are just making content.
― calzino, Friday, 9 November 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
mr president this is not so much a question as a comment
adding: i mean, she's kind of right? obviously the WH is being colossally dishonest abt what happened but it's ALWAYS ALREADY colosally dishonest and yet still "the rules and conventions" are adhered to day in day out, to be gamed by them ("them") and whinily invoked us ('us"). the entire set-up is bullshit and should be binned forthwith by serious media outlets soup to nuts, if they actually care abt informing their readers and their viewers. if you're going timidly (or even dickishly) to test the limits of the form, you should really properly test them and blow the whole thing up. no best-formed version of what acosta was doing was going to be the unmasking-oz moment.
― mark s, Friday, 9 November 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
BBC political hack admits that this game of etiquette/presentation is far too important to be ruined by journalism. Saying that, Acosta seems like a complete cock as well!
― calzino, Friday, 9 November 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
She strikes me as the type of upper middle class white woman who uses ‘with all due respect’ to indicate anger.
― suzy, Friday, 9 November 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
I agree with Maitlis.
― Alba, Friday, 9 November 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
I mean, if it was the same question being persued cause Trump hadn’t answered, fine, but it seems dickish to rob other journalists of the chance to ask their own.
― Alba, Friday, 9 November 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
No, I think you have right of reply at the very least when the Prez is making lame personal comments about you and your employer. That fucker needs reminding that he’s everyone’s employee, including the members of the press.
― suzy, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
it's hard for me not take such a smug bbc crypto-tory twat as the right person to preaching political hack etiquette and when Piers Morgan is endorsing someones's "unpopular" hottake, you know something stinks a bit.
― calzino, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
sorry garbled rushed post but with the BBC's record of impartial political punditry in recent years, she's really on thin ice and wanging bricks in a glasshouse and all that!
― calzino, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
I don’t give a fuck what Piers Morgan thinks and I wish Twitter would allow me to mute him properly instead of letting “zingers” against him stink up my timeline.
― Alba, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
If you mute him Twitter just replaces him with Dan Hodges iirc
― calzino, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link