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• Smith quits role as England coach

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 459
  Tony Smith resigns as coach of the England rugby league side. View original post here:  Smith quits role as England coach
  14 hours ago

• BBC banned ’small beer’ Enid Blyton for three decades

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 459
  Best-selling children’s author Enid Blyton was banned from the BBC for nearly 30 years because her work was considered “small beer”. View original post here: BBC banned ’small beer’ Enid Blyton for three decades
  14 hours ago

• Airdate: Pet Shop Boys at the BBC

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 601
  Amazing the things you find buried on digital channels. Nearly missed this one. And we can’t have that. Pet Shop Boys at the BBC celebrates over 20 years of performances from one of Britain’s most iconic groups. This new retrospective features some career-defining moments with performances on BBC shows including ...
  4 days ago

• Complaint about BBC coverage of Britain’s new nuclear power stations; and reply regarding the One Show

  
  Britology Watch: Deconstructing 'British Values' — Authority: 412
  Below is the text of an email of complaint I sent to the BBC yesterday: I am complaining about the fact that the BBC’s reporting on the government’s plans for ten new nuclear power stations, announced yesterday, failed to explain why almost all of them (nine) are to be built in England and none in Scotland. This ...
  4 days ago

• Ofcom balks at Beeb’s HD DRM dream

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  More consideration needed, but there ain’t long Ofcom has told the BBC it will not allow the broadcaster to mandate DRM on HD, at least not yet, following overwhelming response to its two-week consultation.… Read the original post:  Ofcom balks at Beeb’s HD DRM dream Related posts: Irish ISP to ...
  6 days ago

• A corner of a foreign field..

  
  Living for pleasure alone... — Authority: 122
  Acts of remembrance I found this a while ago (which may be appropriate for today), while going through some crates of vinyl. It’s from a BBC lp from the early 70’s, at first I thought it was one of those endless military brass band lp’s but it seems to be something a bit more complex. It is a sort of sound ...
  1 week ago

• Tension in Guinea

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  Download audio file (bbcbest110409.mp3) Download MP3 Over the past few weeks tens of thousands of workers in the West African state of Guinea have been striking, protesting after government soldiers opened fire on pro-democracy demonstrators at a football stadium in the capital, Conakry, last month. Mark Doyle ...
  1 week ago

• Couples Ransom Demand Imminent

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 508
  A ransom demand for a British couple being held by Somali pirates is to be made later, the BBC has learnt.
  2 weeks ago

• Email of complaint to the BBC over tonight’s One Show

  
  Britology Watch: Deconstructing 'British Values' — Authority: 412
  Below is the text of an email of complaint I’ve just sent to the BBC regarding tonight’s One Show programme on BBC1: “I am complaining that the feature in tonight’s One Show about the government’s proposals to provide elementary careers advice to seven-year-olds in schools completely failed to clarify ...
  2 weeks ago

• Russia warned about HIV epidemic

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 459
  A top international HIV/Aids expert tells the BBC that the epidemic in Russia is now out of control. Read the original post:  Russia warned about HIV epidemic
  2 weeks ago

• MP mortgage claims ‘to be banned’

  
  Recording — Authority: 469
  MPs will be banned from claiming the cost of mortgages on second homes and employing relatives, sources tell the BBC.
  2 weeks ago

• David speaks (again): Question Time

  
  Mr London Street — Authority: 511
  Over four months ago I wrote this post right here . In it I said that I avoided blogging about politics because everyone in the UK knew what was going on and nobody outside the UK would give two proverbial hoots. In the post I talked about some chap called Nick Griffin. I wonder what happened to him in the end? ...
  2 weeks ago

• Best of the BBC: Maternal mortality worldwide

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  As part of a BBC World Service mini-series on maternal mortality, BBC reporter Jill McGivering travels to Pakistan. Every year, as many as 30,000 women die in childbirth in Pakistan. That’s about one child dying every half-hour. In her report, McGivering goes to rural areas of Sindh Province, and meets with ...
  2 weeks ago

• VIDEO: Simply the Best - Clarkson shows Ferrari 348 much love on Top Gear circa 1991

  
  Car Leasing News, Reviews and Stories — Authority: 163
  Filed under: Videos , Ferrari , UK , Humor Grab yourself a Zima and click above to watch the video after the jump The Sixties came back for a while. Then the Seventies returned for an encore performance. Now, even things from the Eighties are coming back into style. But we’re praying to ...
  2 weeks ago

• What I pay my licence fee for...

  
  ishouldbeworking — Authority: 112
  Great fun was had with BBC 4s excellent documentary on Krautrock, shown on Friday night (Die Kosmische Musik" is never going to catch on, is it? Im not really comfortable with the ignoble term Krautrock, but it is at least quicker to say). Ill be watching it again on iPlayer at least once, before it vanishes. I urge ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Drive: 2011 Lexus LFA is wicked and this way comes

  
  Car Leasing News, Reviews and Stories — Authority: 163
  Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Lexus , Toyota , First Drive 2011 Lexus LFA - Click above for high-res image gallery Its taken nearly four days to wrap my head around the 2011 Lexus LFA, and if Im honest, Im still not halfway there. The combination of a decade-long gestation, a half dozen prototypes comprised of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers (Live At The BBC Electric Proms)

  
  The Hip Hop Chronicle UK — Authority: 518
  Nice performance. Keep up the great work Dizzee!  a2a_linkname="Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers (Live At The BBC Electric Proms)"; a2a_linkurl="http://www.thehiphopchronicle.com/2009/10/24/dizzee-rascal-bonkers-live-at-the-bbc-electric-proms/"; a2a_hide_embeds=0; a2a_show_title=1;
  3 weeks ago

• Roses are red, roses are blue – and on sale in Japan

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  A blue rose, known by many as the “Holy Grail” of plant breeding, is soon to go on sale in Japan, reports the BBC’s Kathryn Westcott. Read more: Roses are red, roses are blue – and on sale in Japan Please Share or Bookmark this post
  3 weeks ago

• The BBC Anti-Nick Griffin BNP Protest In Pictures: Hello Mum

  
  Anorak News — Authority: 620
  WERE you at the BBC protest against the BNP? Which acronym were you gunning for? NF? ANL? SKY? Was that you screaming “ Intolerance will not be tolerated! ” * Were you with the Socialist Workers who gave us the Jew-free Holocaust ? * Were you with the Conservatives who in Europe have ”allied themselves ...
  3 weeks ago

• About the BBC: a new blog

  
  BBC Internet blog — Authority: 590
  Just a quick note to let you know that theres a new BBC blog, About the BBC , which will interest many of the Internet blogs users. This is how the blogs editor Chris Jones describes its role : "Well be using this blog as a place where decision makers and experts can talk about things going on inside the BBC. This ...
  3 weeks ago

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