RIP on The Today programme

[Caspar Bowden]

> >Caspar has just appeared on Radio 4's Today programme in the
> >last slot of the programme.

It's up on a non-publicized URL, as well as Nick Bohm's R5 interview from
26th Feb.

http://www.fipr.org/rip/CB_on_R4_Today_6.3.2000_RIP_2nd_Reading.wma
http://www.fipr.org/rip/NB_on_R5_26.2.2000.wma

The RealAudio (.rm) versions are there as well, but (I'm not entirely sure
about this streaming thing - when server widgets are needed) I can only
get the .wma versions to stream by opening the URL from Windows Media
Player.

It would be unseemly to describe (for the timebeing) the unbelievable
battles with the producer (and the phenomenally self-serving excuses used to
justify a safe dumbed-down news agenda) that occurred trying to prevent
myself getting bumped from the programme (for the fourth or sixth time,
depending on your POV, by BBC radio in three weeks).

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the TV programme of parliamentary record ("Despatch
Box"), just devoted 20 minutes to Ken's gambit (not actually anything to do
with parliament), five to  Social Security questions + outgoing NHS chief
Sir Alan Langlands being questioned about careless hand-washing (some
hilarious irony intended ??), and the rest to production of the Mayoral
candidates booklet. Not a sausage about a rather good RIP debate.

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