Re: [Swprograms] BBC to scrap Calling the Falklands?

[Mike Barraclough <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting 3 minute piece on todays PM programme
including some recordings of the service, will be on
Listen Again until Monday, advance the player to
53:38, thanks to Ian Kelly for spotting this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/pm/

Not everybody is happy about the decision, some quotes
from an article in todays Times:

Norma Edwards, an islander who served for 20 years as
a councillor from 1985, said: "It will be greatly
missed. We may have television now, but still a lot of
people tune in. During the conflict it was the
mainstay of the people ? it's where everybody got
their information from."

Islanders, though, are unhappy that the decision to
end the programme was taken without any public
consultation, although the World Service
has been in secret negotiations with the Falklands
government over the change. One of the few who had
been consulted in advance said: "I am really annoyed,
however, at the fact that this is being presented as a
fait-accompli and something that is actually `good
news'."

Andrew Rosindell, the Conservative secretary of the
all-party Falkland Islands group, said: "For the tiny
amount of money saved, this decision will be
interpreted in Buenos Aires as a sign that the
British Government does not believe it is important to
maintain links with the Falklands."

Mr Rosindell said that he would be writing to Mark
Thompson, the BBC Director-General, asking him to
attend a meeting of the all-party group, to explain
the reasons for the decision.

Full article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2056162,00.html


		
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