The BBC World Service

Unfortunately I thought I was listening to it the other day when all of a sudden they started with the God bothering nonsense, and all of a sudden I realised that I had, for the last hour been listening to world seventh day adventist radio or somesuch shite!!

A national treasure, its available on FM in Berlin and I gather the Dalai Lama is a big fan.

I haven't heard Westway yet, it's something tolook forward to ;-)

You can now listen to it on-line chris. Its set in a busy inner-city London health centre and explores a lot of 'contemporary issues' eg racism, sexuality, health concerns, asylum seekers, illegal immigration, women forced into prostituion.

To-be-fair its well acted and written but despite sharing its liberal- left approach to the issues it tackles, dissenting voices are a touch too easily dismissed, straw-targeted and caricatured.

What next? a re-recording of the shipping forecast music - that really would be the end.

News Hour - sixty minutes of news, views and analysis from around the globe.

Outlook

From Our Own Correspondent

Letter From America

Off the Shelf, especially Frankenstein and a dead scary Ian McEwan book. I particularly enjoy the cliffhanger endings to each episode, made all the more compelling by the certainty that I will miss tomorrow's episode.

I fucking hate Health Matters

I dig the Westway theme music

There was a very good series of the Pet Shop Boys playing their favourite records with humourous asides

UK Chart rundown always thrilling

Current affairs chatshow Koffi Annan's Coffee Morning is good but it can never replace the much-missed variety show Boutros Boutros Ghali's Ghoulish Gala.

Love Peel on Thursdays! The mix of old-time (1930's, on) and newer (current) music keeps it interesting.

i love WS.

That Prince Harry/Obama thing was fucking excruciating. The usual tedious succession of blandishments + hollow platitudes from the ex-pres of the free world, and that fucking clueless dim cunt talking about how "we can all make a difference". Seriously, I was almost on suicide watch this morning, but the total hatred this stirred up in me gave me the succour to go on living for another day. Then afterwards lots of Royal analists talking about how radical and fantastic Harry is, "but he doesn't get drawn into politics".

dude, that is the wrong sort of joke to make on the internet come on

I better ring Prevent, and dob myself in!

i think a mod should remove it. people get put on lists for less unfortunately

I think you are overestimating the reach of the snoopers here somewhat, and if I end up on a list - well so be it!

i am currently reading a spy novel so maybe i am being a wee bit dramatic

lol!

Ha

b-but it was in fact removed? ...

What is that rustling sound in my garden? And there has been a curious echo on my phone.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/pilots/radio-map

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04sj2pt

I have been getting addicted to Phillipe Sands' The Ratline this week. A very composed investigation into the mysterious death of the completely unsympathetic Austrian Nazi Otto von Wächter (who was Nazi governor of Lvov when Sands' paternal grandad's family all got murdered there). The whole series is up on i-player now and it's brilliant despite having Stephen Fry voicing his dairies in parts. There is a starling bit where he notes in the year of 2017 his interviewee with troubling familial Nazi connections still has a Hitler pic on his bookshelf.

That map looks cool Tracer, will check it next time I'm on the computer.

Xp

I've been listening to that prog. Really good. Bit chilling hearing his friend (?) still chuckling about how he evaded his would be captors.

The US "Persilschein"-ing of Nazis guilty of genocide is interesting/horrifying as well.