Re: [Swprograms] FOOC on Write On

["Scott Royall" <royall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, William, the BBC apparently does not exist to cater to the
tastes of any one listener segment.

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[mailto:swprograms-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William Martin
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 1:42 PM
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Subject: [Swprograms] FOOC on Write On

Re the recent note on FOOC specials: these were mentioned on this
weekend's Write On, and also a listener letter pleading for the restoration
of the mid-week edition of FOOC (which they pronounce "fook", by the
way). Penny Vine interviewed yet another BBC producer/scheduler
person who gave the usual song and dance about how much they
valued FOOC but that they just couldn't fit it into the last schedule
revision. (Editorial comment: Yeah, sure... They can cram in all sorts
of sports-junk 15-minute programs, keep an extra 15 minutes on
Outlook each day, and have Westway even though it is planned to
be killed off, and they cannot keep a 15-minute mid-week FOOC when
they are paying vast amounts to support and keep these skilled foreign
correspondents in various hellholes or paradises around the globe, and
whose best output is their little essays on FOOC! Hmph!)

Anywho, there seems to be a strong effort to restore the mid-week
FOOC maybe even in the next schedule revision. Now, if only they'd
try to make sure that we could hear it on SW!!!

73, Will

PS - The BBC missed a perfect chance to kill off Westway early and
save some money and free up schedule time when the tube bombings
happened in July. Short script: all the Westway characters come into
the clinic (or whatever it is) at the same time for some contrived
reason, and then in comes a suicide bomber and takes out the whole
batch in one fell swoop. A nice combination of antiterrorist propaganda
and a tie-in to then-current events.


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