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Complaints to the BBC and the prospect of a Judicial Review

Laura Kuenssberg interviewed Deputy Leader of Reform Richard Tice on Sunday. Kuenssberg pushed Tice on the Reform UK councillor who suggested “melting down Nigerians to fill pot holes”. Kuenssberg also pushed Tice on the astonishing private £5 million personal donation to Farage.

It is telling that Tice tried to dodge the questions.

During the interview, Richard Tice deflected criticism of Reform politicians by referring to the “anti-semitic Green Party”. Laura Kuenssberg ignored this and did not challenge it. Surely, when such offensive statements are made, the interviewer has a duty to challenge them and present the other side of the argument. I have complained to the BBC about this.

The Green Party have been called anti-semitic because they oppose the genocide and war crimes in Palestine. There is nothing anti-semitic about this. The many marches that have taken place calling for a Free Palestine are not hate marches and always include big contingents of Jewish people. To call the only political party in the UK with a Jewish leader “anti-semitic” is beyond the pale.

Richard Tice again referred to ‘Net Stupid Zero’ and, as always, the BBC said nothing about the consequences of that Reform UK policy. Unless the rich nations step up their commitment to replace fossil fuel use as soon as possible, we face climate tipping points such as the collapse of AMOC, leading to the collapse of our society and the death of billions of people.

You can see the interview here.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/26342046342157231

I have also complained about BBC Radio 4’s coverage of the Local Election campaigns.

BBC Radio 4 (and no doubt other stations) has been negligent in its lack of questioning of politicians on the climate catastrophe and the imminent threat of tipping points, such as the collapse of AMOC.

In the week preceding the May 7 election, Today interviewers didn’t ask party spokespeople questions about climate change, in spite of the fact that in the months leading up to the election the London School of Economics had published several reports on the fact that climate change will ‘hammer incomes and government budgets’ and that ‘climate change impacts are intensifying, yet adaptation efforts are not keeping pace with the scale and urgency of emerging risks.’
We face a national security risk, as outlined in the National Emergency Briefing, yet this is not being talked about on your programmes.

No party spokespeople were questioned or asked to comment on the fact that seven Reform-led councils have ‘scrapped’ their climate targets, and climate change denial has been expressed by Reform UK councillors in five councils. Some councils have removed content about climate change from strategy documents.’ (London School of Economics report). The BBC must prioritise discussion and debate of the National Emergency Briefing and force politicians to respond to it. Failing to do this means the BBC is part of the problem. The BBC should screen the National Emergency Briefing film on prime-time television as soon as possible.

I will keep you updated when I get replies to these complaints. Please help put pressure on the BBC to tell the full truth about the climate and nature emergencies and what is happening in Palestine. When you see or hear a programme that talks about climate change but fails to mention the most dangerous aspects of it, like the collapse of AMOC or the death of rainforests, make sure to send a complaint in. Likewise, when people are accused of anti-semitism for simply opposing the Israeli Government and the Genocide they are committing, send in a complaint. https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints

Meanwhile, Jonathon Fuller is making progress in the preparation for taking the BBC to Judicial Review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BscvWCqgAmQ

The BBC have said they will stop transmitting BBC Radio 4 on Long Wave, LW, on Sunday 21st June 2026 😭☹️🤬☹️😭

#Radio #BBC #BBCRadio #BBCRadio4 #LW #LongWave #SaveLongWave #SaveRadio #Radio4

‘I was in a terrible state’: actor David Morrissey tells how social anxiety led him to alcoholism https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/may/10/actor-david-morrissey-terrible-social-anxiety-alcoholism-desert-island-discs #DavidMorrissey #Stage #Culture #DesertIslandDiscs #Radio4 #Bbc #Media #Radio #UkNews

Fellow humans, this episode of Naturebang is worth a listen (I mean they all are, but definitely this one).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vyh4

#NatureBang #Radio4 #BBCRadio4 #BBCR4 #Radio #Nature #HumanNature

Alan Titchmarsh names gardening tool that is the ‘most important’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1754902/alan-titchmarsh-names-gardening-tool-that-is-the-most-important/ #AlanTitchmarsh #garden #gardening #MontyDon #R4Today #Radio4 #RoyalHorticulturalSociety

https://www.europesays.com/videos/19787/ Watch Saturday’s ITV News as Starmer says protesters have a duty to call out controversial chants #AnneBolyne #bermuda #Birmingham #Championship #charlotte #comedian #football #GoldersGreen #henry #ipswitch #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #jewish #jews #KeirStarmer #king #london #palestine #PeterKay #PlayOff #portest #PremierLeague #PrimeMinister #Radio4 #royals #starmer #TerrorAttack #tudor

Achubwch Radio 4 long wave:

https://c.org/KW92sFMtN6

#longwave #radio #bbc #bbcradio4 #radio4 #lw

Since the demise of #Radioarchive and the other #Cheops sites, is there anywhere to get some of that old #BBC #Radio4 stuff?

It's kind of ironic that the BBC calls out to people who have preserved their stuff in the past to fill in programme gaps for stuff that they then sell, and yet do their damndest to stop archivists preserving things that have now ended up lost again.

Ever since I lost my old iPod with the 48 hour version of "This Sceptred Isle" on it, I have been trying to find it again. There are plenty of torrents with 0 seeds and no "last seen" info, and I think even the abridged one is gone from Archive.org so unless someone has copies, it's just on its way to becoming yet another lost show, that I partly paid for.

Grrr.

#History of #Britain #UK #Museum #Curation #Collecting #LostMedia #Radio no #Podcast #ThisSceptredIsle

Since the demise of #Radioarchive and the other #Cheops sites, is there anywhere to get some of that old #BBC #Radio4 stuff?

It's kind of ironic that the BBC calls out to people who have preserved their stuff in the past to fill in programme gaps for stuff that they then sell, and yet do their damndest to stop archivists preserving things that have now ended up lost again.

Ever since I lost my old iPod with the 48 hour version of "This Sceptred Isle" on it, I have been trying to find it again. There are plenty of torrents with 0 seeds and no "last seen" info, and I think even the abridged one is gone from Archive.org so unless someone has copies, it's just on its way to becoming yet another lost show, that I partly paid for.

Grrr.

#History of #Britain #UK #Museum #Curation #Collecting #LostMedia #Radio no #Podcast #ThisSceptredIsle

Since the demise of #Radioarchive and the other #Cheops sites, is there anywhere to get some of that old #BBC #Radio4 stuff?

It's kind of ironic that the BBC calls out to people who have preserved their stuff in the past to fill in programme gaps for stuff that they then sell, and yet do their damndest to stop archivists preserving things that have now ended up lost again.

Ever since I lost my old iPod with the 48 hour version of "This Sceptred Isle" on it, I have been trying to find it again. There are plenty of torrents with 0 seeds and no "last seen" info, and I think even the abridged one is gone from Archive.org so unless someone has copies, it's just on its way to becoming yet another lost show, that I partly paid for.

Grrr.

#History of #Britain #UK #Museum #Curation #Collecting #LostMedia #Radio no #Podcast #ThisSceptredIsle

Since the demise of #Radioarchive and the other #Cheops sites, is there anywhere to get some of that old #BBC #Radio4 stuff?

It's kind of ironic that the BBC calls out to people who have preserved their stuff in the past to fill in programme gaps for stuff that they then sell, and yet do their damndest to stop archivists preserving things that have now ended up lost again.

Ever since I lost my old iPod with the 48 hour version of "This Sceptred Isle" on it, I have been trying to find it again. There are plenty of torrents with 0 seeds and no "last seen" info, and I think even the abridged one is gone from Archive.org so unless someone has copies, it's just on its way to becoming yet another lost show, that I partly paid for.

Grrr.

#History of #Britain #UK #Museum #Curation #Collecting #LostMedia #Radio no #Podcast #ThisSceptredIsle

Tough road ahead. But, with my potent milk drink, I can take on anything. #Taskmaster. ( Also, a new #StrongMessageHere up at 9.45 on #Radio4 and #BBCSounds. )

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v4mtuliye2txupnyhuzicebt/post/3mhw7wiumec2l

Dire Straits of #Hormuz

#BBC #Radio4 #Netanyahu #Trump #DireStraits #Iran

‘Her warmth filled the kitchen every morning’: the magic – and tenacity – of Jenni Murray https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/21/jenni-murray-womans-hour-radio-television-bbc #JenniMurray #TelevisionRadio #Radio #Bbc #Radio4 #RadioIndustry #Culture #Women #Women #BreastCancer #Media #Society #HillaryClinton #MargaretThatcher #Marriage #Feminism #UkNews

‘Her warmth filled the kitchen every morning’: the magic – and tenacity – of Jenni Murray https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/21/jenni-murray-womans-hour-radio-television-bbc #JenniMurray #TelevisionRadio #Radio #Bbc #Radio4 #RadioIndustry #Culture #Women #Women #BreastCancer #Media #Society #HillaryClinton #MargaretThatcher #Marriage #Feminism #UkNews

‘Her warmth filled the kitchen every morning’: the magic – and tenacity – of Jenni Murray https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/21/jenni-murray-womans-hour-radio-television-bbc #JenniMurray #TelevisionRadio #Radio #Bbc #Radio4 #RadioIndustry #Culture #Women #Women #BreastCancer #Media #Society #HillaryClinton #MargaretThatcher #Marriage #Feminism #UkNews

Excellent episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage on birds -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09ly26f?

#Birding #Birds #InfiniteMonkeyCage #Radio #Radio4 #BBCR4 #NaturalHistory

Here's a toy from my 20 years in #JavaScript #development: https://marquisdegeek.github.io/lionelblair/ A script which generates jokes that
might be found on “I’m sorry, I haven’t a clue”. #toy #quickhacks #isihac
#radio4

Jonathan Pryce was on #Radio4 this morning.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002qj8c
#JonathanPryce #DoctorWho #Carrington

I just listened to the new BBC Inside Science presenter - some twat they've nabbed from 'The Times' - bloody awful.
What the actual fuck have the BBC done with all their top notch science journalists; Marnie Chesterton, Roland Pease and Adam Rutherford?
What the hell is going on?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQR5DEaDO0F/?img_index=1

#InsideScience
#Radio4
#MarnieChesterton
#ScienceCommunication #ScienceEducation #ScienceNews #AnotherBBCFuckUp #BBC #BBCRadio

The Naked Week
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002mn0y
#TheNakedWeek #Radio4 #news #StrawPoll #comedy #satire

@saxifraga @FediFollows @robinince

I'm a fan of science-comedy #BBCRadio #Radio4 show #TheInfiniteMonkeyCage , great to see co-host Robin Ince here on the #Fediverse !

(Brian Cox {don't ask which!} is probably too busy resting in his Gou'auld sarcophagus restoring his youthful appearance & lustrous locks.)

Absolutely shameless appropriation of #WindintheWillows for political purposes on #BBC Radio 4 at the moment. It's brilliant. 👌🏼

#Radio4 #drama #impartiality #not

#bbc #radio4 #today Commentary , IMO , anything #Gove (aka, nurses 'best boy'), says is written for him by the fascist Black Shirts of Tufton Street. #justsaying #resist ✊ 🇪🇺 😎

#bbc #radio4 #today Commentary , IMO , anything #Gove (aka, nurses 'best boy'), says is written for him by the fascist Black Shirts of Tufton Street. #justsaying #resist ✊ 🇪🇺 😎

#bbc #radio4 #today Commentary , IMO , anything #Gove (aka, nurses 'best boy'), says is written for him by the fascist Black Shirts of Tufton Street. #justsaying #resist ✊ 🇪🇺 😎

#bbc #radio4 #today Commentary , IMO , anything #Gove (aka, nurses 'best boy'), says is written for him by the fascist Black Shirts of Tufton Street. #justsaying #resist ✊ 🇪🇺 😎

#bbc #radio4 #today Commentary , IMO , anything #Gove (aka, nurses 'best boy'), says is written for him by the fascist Black Shirts of Tufton Street. #justsaying #resist ✊ 🇪🇺 😎

@SesameSquirrel @kshernandez

At one point, I'd have sworn one of the announcers on #BBCRadio #Radio4 in the 90s/00s (Vaughan something) must have been a kung fu film dubber in his youth

#KungFuSat

#gaza #bbc #radio4 #correspondent Shameful deliberate destruction of 2.5 k years of curated archaeology and history. #zionist #hegemony #freegaza #gaza ✊ 🇵🇸

If I reboot the devices the lookups immediately stop, but restart as soon as I start listening to #BBCsounds again (#6music or #Radio4 are listened to every day), and don't stop when we stop the stream. Again, only our 1st Gen Echos do this.

It's not causing any problems, per se, but it's annoying me, causing a little extra load on the wifi I could do without, and likely also using more power.

(Tagging in @tdp_org, @BBCRD and @bobdvb in case they have any insight)

#fascist #bbc Why are they promoting the #Tory agenda? #Radio4 #Today #nowplaying. That fecker #cleverly . cunning stunt.

#ukpol #radio4 reporting #cleverly back into shadow cabinet. Who'll be next #farage ? #tory #fascists getting organised.

https://www.europesays.com/uk/267688/ ‘Huge 80s star stages astonishing comeback after shock realisation about world’ #AbsolutelyFabulous #AlexeiSayle #BBCTelevision #CateBlanchett #Celebrities #ChristmasParty #Entertainment #GaryLineker #HeartAttack #JenniferSaunders #LabourParty #PeterRichardson #Politics #Prisons #Radio4 #RikMayall #UK #UnitedKingdom #viral

Waiting outside Broadcasting House for a recording of Just A Minute. #JustAMinute #bbcR4 #Radio4

#politics #eu #uk #reset I know, #nerdy but I've always maintained the closest #truth you're lilkely to hear is #worldservice #roundup #westminstertoday #faemingtoday all #bbcsounds #radio4 . Before 6 a.m & not after 7...(for truth), the sub editors get in by 6.45 . #age & #experience

Keep Longwave – The campaign to maintain our radio heritage https://keeplongwave.co.uk/

#radio #LW #Longwave #radio4longwave #Radio4 #bbcradio4 #bbc #petition #saveradio #shippingforecast #radio4shippingforecast #TheArchers

Absolutely Fabulous Reunion:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00268jc
#AbsolutelyFabulous
#JuliaSawalha
#JoannaLumley
#JenniferSaunders
#JaneHorrocks
#BBC #Radio4

Absolutely Fabulous Reunion:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00268jc
#AbsolutelyFabulous
#JuliaSawalha
#JoannaLumley
#JenniferSaunders
#JaneHorrocks
#BBC #Radio4

Absolutely Fabulous Reunion:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00268jc
#AbsolutelyFabulous
#JuliaSawalha
#JoannaLumley
#JenniferSaunders
#JaneHorrocks
#BBC #Radio4

Absolutely Fabulous Reunion:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00268jc
#AbsolutelyFabulous
#JuliaSawalha
#JoannaLumley
#JenniferSaunders
#JaneHorrocks
#BBC #Radio4

On a radio listening discovery.
Loving the latest #radio4 'Strong message here' podcast on relaunching and resetting with Helen and Armando.

Sounds like Labour need to ditch Keir asap and find a better storyteller fast or at least find better storytellers than Keir Pat & co fast.Good stuff.

Great to be given regular Armando gold and Helen's always good radio.
#strongmessagehere #politics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hsd0y4
#Radio #Drama #Radio4 #BBC #iPlayer #Money #MoneyGone #distopian #distopia

Something that will affect all UK Long Wave #radio listeners is that, at the same time (early April) the separate #LW opt-outs for #Radio4 are being dropped, and the service will become a 24/7 relay of the FM service. The Daily Service, the extended edition of Yesterday in Parliament and Test Match Special are thus being scattered to the four winds.

198kHz is going away. It’s unsustainable. The nostalgia-addled cries will come to nothing. Let’s just move on. #radio4 #lw #LongWave

#WATO: “Let’s see what the #Taliban think…”

(I swear I’m not making this up.)

#WorldThisWeekend #WTW #WTF #Radio4 #BBCBalance

Oh dear. #BBC #Radio4's series on witches got off to a good start, but episode 4 includes one of the stupidest things I've heard all year, a paean to #feudalism, because the equality between un-free #serfs is apparently better than modern #capitalist inequality in which nigh-on everyone is better off and free. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mc4p/episodes/player

My husband, who is not in the least religious, recommended this to me. It resonates in some ways due to my own recent bereavement.

My (lack of) faith is unchanged, and I have issues with the idea of god as father, but I share it here anyway because it's quite nice.

BBC Radio 4 Lent Talks episode 1, 2023: The People's Prayer
#grief #bereavement #Lent #LentTalks #BBC #LordsPrayer #Radio4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jkxr?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

My husband, who is not in the least religious, recommended this to me. It resonates in some ways due to my own recent bereavement.

My (lack of) faith is unchanged, and I have issues with the idea of god as father, but I share it here anyway because it's quite nice.

BBC Radio 4 Lent Talks episode 1, 2023: The People's Prayer
#grief #bereavement #Lent #LentTalks #BBC #LordsPrayer #Radio4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jkxr?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile