Letter from Red Ken

[Mailman]

Do you REALLY believe this?

The Beeb said it was so! Therefore this must be the truth!

Mailman

[Mailman]

A couple of TV and radio stations do not an important cultutal institution make; it is the productions that the BBC bring about, that commercial TV would not, that are what make it so.

I am not suggesting that the BBC is all of British culture. And indeed, if I could only have either Shakespear or the BBC, I'd take Shakespeare. But he's not an institution, he's an artist. I do think the country is in a sad way with what remains of its culture, but the BBC, at least on its good days, is a light in this darkness, not a greater darkness.

Do you REALLY believe this?

Mailman

[Numptycorner]

The Beeb said it was so! Therefore this must be the truth!

Mailman

Don't confuse revealing the true agenda of the republican government with anti-american. They are not America, as the recent elections have proven.
The republican government with the most unpopular president since RIchard Nixon. The Republican government that has just recieved a massive kicking from the American population, is that anti-american?

[Mailman]

Don't confuse revealing the true agenda of the republican government with anti-american. They are not America, as the recent elections have proven.
The republican government with the most unpopular president since RIchard Nixon. The Republican government that has just recieved a massive kicking from the American population, is that anti-american?

I see the beeb has got to you!

Mailman

[Numptycorner]

I see the beeb has got to you!

Mailman

No the facts got to me. You get the facts when the American population votes and the fact is they like Bush much less than you do, and they managed to make up their minds without the BBC.

[expat]

Do you REALLY believe this?

Mailman

Yes. Do you have any idea about what a culture, or a national institution, might be?

[sasguru]

The beeb at its best is indeed great. Look at Planet Earth, BBC 4, Panorama etc. No other broadcasting organisation would even think about this stuff.
On the other hand it is sometimes just too PC.

[Pinto]

Watching good programmes that are not constantly interrupted with repetitive mind-numbing adverts is worth 10 quid a month, in my opinion.

[Lucy]

The beeb at its best is indeed great. Look at Planet Earth, BBC 4, Panorama etc. No other broadcasting organisation would even think about this stuff.

Have you seen television in any other country ?

[expat]

Have you seen television in any other country ?

The US: the best program(me)s are denoted by "a WGBH/BBC TV co-production".

France: sans commentaire.