[Swprograms] BBC and Future Role of Public Service Broadcasting

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"We can afford what we decide we can afford. You know when you visit another country and you see that it spends more money on flowers for its roundabouts than we do, and you think … coo, why don’t we do that? How pretty. How pleasing. What a difference it makes. To spend money for the public good in a way that enriches, gives pleasure, improves the quality of life, that is something. That is a real achievement. It’s only flowers in a roundabout, but how wonderful. Well, we have the equivalent of flowers in the roundabout times a million: the BBC enriches the country in ways we will only discover when it has gone and it is too late to build it up again. We actually can afford the BBC, because we can’t afford not to."

An excellent, intelligent and entertaining talk by Stephen Fry on the subject can be found here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/thefuture/transcript_fry.shtml

You can read it, listen to it or download it for future reference.

There's also a talk by Sir David Attenborough that I've yet to read, but I'm sure is just as well presented.

John Figliozzi



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