Many may share my concerns about the reported cuts to the BBC's Wold Service. Beamed out to Spilsby, Horncastle and Alford and reaching as far as Claxby Pluckacre and Skegness (if the ionosphere isn't playing up), local people are in shock at the news. Swingeing cuts of up to £15.50 will be applied in a move that the Prime Minister has described as "firm but fair in time of national austerity". 24 - hour repeats of
The Archers, the backbone of the BBC's Wold Service will be reduced to a two-hour omnibus edition. The Early morning show "
Farming the Land", now in its third year of Portuguese and Somali language transmissions also faces removal from the schedule. "
Remarkable People" a popular programme not just aimed at Wolds people but all of Lincolnshire will not be affected. Listener figures have proved its popularity week after week, with such special guests as a person from Scunthorpe, a young lad with a degree and a genuine homosexual.
"It's not fair", said a smock-coated pensioner in Old Bolingbroke. "We depend on the Wold Service for information about the rest of the country. Only last week they did a programme on the popularity of Butternut Squash and the A 158 to Lincoln came to a standstill. This news is like a brog in the eye with a thack peg".
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6 comments:
Mavis Enderby will be horrified.
Luckily they can still listen to the Lincolnshire Poacher:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1nVbRjDBUw
Believe it or not there was an optician in Boston called John Mavis Enderby. I am not sure who addressed him as "Mavis".
Jim, thanks for the link but I feel as if I have been trapped in one of your dreams.
Welcome to my world. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
There used to be an optician in Queensferry St. in Edinburgh called Frank Seymour.
"Under The Grandstand" by Seymour Butts.
Jim, your world is still going to look like a riddle unless you put the enigma inside a conundrum. Paperchase do nice ones.
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