The BBC

... 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

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!

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.

difference is my DAB radio doesn't pick up TalkSport so well

good radio

it was annoying once the BBC decided not to pay for radio coverage of non-Prem games!

any reason why the Beeb seems to be broadcasting coverage of this pitiful boxing cosplay i first heard of a couple of hours ago?

the reason seems to be "Stephen Nolan likes to pretend to be exasperated for money" but

Is that any way describe a Papal visit?

"When Crouch was 'dissed' by Prince Harry"

ho ho ho lol etc... arrrgh! fucking privatise these cunts already.

Can add this deleted tweet to the pile now. pic.twitter.com/t2NosOwAZa

— Tom Mills (@ta_mills) October 29, 2018

so sick of politically correct whinging about death squads

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.

This is atrocious:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/46147166

emily maitlis, how that boot taste

another one for the dossier.

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!

never mind pertinent questions, you are just making content.