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The snap election that turned into a Labour landslide. Catch up on the UK General Election here.
50 years of commercial radio -- how ILR changed my life, and kept doing it.
Every day was again a chance to prove yourself, or fall flat on your face. It felt like being a busker, suddenly asked to perform on stage at Glastonbury with your favourite band.
It’s probably too late to save BBC Local Radio.
“Local stations bind communities together, they’re a platform for the stories that make a town, city or county what it is. They entertain as well as inform, they combat loneliness and they provide comfort.”
Don’t Cut BBC Local Radio - Axe EastEnders Instead.
These stations, between them, have more than 5-million listeners a week. Many never listen to any other BBC station. But these stations are to be dismantled without “our BBC” bothering to ask what we think.
“I think we need to call the bosses..”
The BBC must be seen to do this properly, reverently. It must be “appropriate”. And so far, it has been.
Why is the BBC breaking the news?
Politicians often forget, when tinkering with the BBC, that it doesn’t belong to them. It belongs to us — all of us. But the same is true of the current, transient, generation of BBC leaders.