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Proud of the BBC

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Your Funny Uncle

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Mitch Benn from Radio 4's The Now Show has a song out this week called I'm Proud of the BBC. It reminds me a lot of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire but that's not necessarily a bad thing, and I'm full square behind the sentiment. The BBC has its failings but I think it's one of the institutions my country can be most proud of and I'm sick of the constant sniping it has to suffer from the right-wing press and other media.



I actually bought the mp3 which is rare for me.
 
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"Everything on BBC 4"...pretty much, and of course Who and shame on me for forgetting about John Peel.
 
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I love Auntie, although I rarely watch the actual TV. Really, I pay my license for radios 2 and 4, pretty much.

People often forget that the BBC's mission is to inform, educate and entertain, and whatever your views of how they spend their money or how the organisation is paid for, it does all of those in spades.

BskyB can fuck off.

Also, Dr Who is fucking ace.

Edit: I don't mean the character, that would be very weird indeed.
 
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I watch BBC more than any other channel, the quality of their documentaries is unrivaled. My only criticism is the fact that their iPlayer is unavailable outside the UK.
Anyway, looking forward to Attenborough's new series!
 
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Pulsar said:
I watch BBC more than any other channel, the quality of their documentaries is unrivaled. My only criticism is the fact that their iPlayer is unavailable outside the UK.
Anyway, looking forward to Attenborough's new series!
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I suspect that in the next couple of years, BBC Worldwide may offer a subscription-based iplayer for those not resident in the UK (even those who pay the license but live abroad may not access the iplayer currently, which has had some debate).
 
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I watched iPlayer programmes including Dr Who while on holiday in Mexico this summer. You just need some form of proxy software. I used the FoxyProxy plug-in for Firefox.

Of the main TV channels, the only thing I watch on ITV that isn't sport is Harry Hill taking the piss out of ITV. Channel 4 is marginally better and Channel 5 occasionally has a decent US import like House, but the vast majority of what I watch/listen to is from the BBC, at least as far as "old media" goes. Even when I had Sky I never watched any of their own content other than their sports and the odd sky arts show.
 
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Your Funny Uncle said:
I watched iPlayer programmes including Dr Who while on holiday in Mexico this summer. You just need some form of proxy software. I used the FoxyProxy plug-in for Firefox.
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Yes, but the T&Cs forbid access to the iplayer outside UK territory so on your own head and all that... I can certainly understand the justification for a license fee payer using a proxy when on holiday or living part-time elsewhere, but it's still currently against the rules. There should be a technology that allows license fee payers to access it wherever, but the technological options available today are all pretty crappy.
 
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Prolescum said:
Yes, but the T&Cs forbid access to the iplayer outside UK territory so on your own head and all that... I can certainly understand the justification for a license fee payer using a proxy when on holiday or living part-time elsewhere, but it's still currently against the rules.
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Yes that's true. Aren't I a terrible rebel? ;)
Prolescum said:
There should be a technology that allows license fee payers to access it wherever, but the technological options available today are all pretty crappy.
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That applies to the rest of the BBC website, too. did you know that it has ads when you access it from outside the UK?
 
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Your Funny Uncle said:
Prolescum said:
Yes, but the T&Cs forbid access to the iplayer outside UK territory so on your own head and all that... I can certainly understand the justification for a license fee payer using a proxy when on holiday or living part-time elsewhere, but it's still currently against the rules.
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Yes that's true. Aren't I a terrible rebel? ;)
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I wouldn't say terrible... :D
Prolescum said:
There should be a technology that allows license fee payers to access it wherever, but the technological options available today are all pretty crappy.
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That applies to the rest of the BBC website, too. did you know that it has ads when you access it from outside the UK?
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I did not, but it's understandable.

An issue for me is that they use flash/adobe AIR, although again, it's understandable.
 
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Prolescum said:
Also, Dr Who is fucking ace.
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Poor Sylvester McCoy.

Also, I am really looking forward to Attenborough's new series. I saw the doc about his life in TV and it really shows how awesome the guy is. Also, the docs on BBC4 are consistently good. Cell, Atom...etc, and not forgetting Wonders of the Solar System.

I'm more than happy to pay for that. Just look at ITV by comparrison. Do I care about Peter Andre's life? No I don't. Glad I'm not paying for that shit.
 
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What would be wrong with the BBC? We get a couple of BBCs in Holland, and they seem like your typical public channels with some nice entertainment, some news broadcasts and just... you know... it's the BBC. Nothing wrong with that, right?
 
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TheFlyingBastard said:
What would be wrong with the BBC? We get a couple of BBCs in Holland, and they seem like your typical public channels with some nice entertainment, some news broadcasts and just... you know... it's the BBC. Nothing wrong with that, right?
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Well some people consider them "cockroaches". In fact, the right isn't very fond of them in general. Perhaps because they can't handle impartial broadcasting? :|

Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110172,00.html
 
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TheFlyingBastard said:
What would be wrong with the BBC? We get a couple of BBCs in Holland, and they seem like your typical public channels with some nice entertainment, some news broadcasts and just... you know... it's the BBC. Nothing wrong with that, right?
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It's constantly under attack by the right-wing press (often News International owned) despite the, quite frankly, amazing things it does. The BBC's world service is a great example of something no other public broadcaster would even think of doing, let alone a commercial one.
 
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nasher168 said:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110172,00.html
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They were ticked off I could say such nasty things about a network they have come to know as "mother," and which went off on an anti-American rant for the entire period before and during the Iraq war.
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Why am I not surprised that those involved with Fox News cannot tell the difference between a mother and an auntie. In their case it's probably the same woman.
 
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I'd just like to point out that a similar thread (actually I copied and pasted the first post cos I'm lazy like that) to this on a Music forum I post on has turned into a debate about 9/11 with the resident Alex Jones acolyte. I tried to ignore him but he kept insisting and I gave in so now I'm in a "discussion" about the WT7 free-fall bullshit... *SIGH*
 
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