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Post by neilmcgowan on May 30, 2013 11:11:26 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2013 2:47:19 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2013 5:55:32 GMT -5
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Post by neilmcgowan on Jun 5, 2013 3:19:48 GMT -5
I continue to believe it is an abuse to permit a signed-up propagandist for UKIP to have his own show on R3 dedicated exclusively to British composers.
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Post by ahinton on Jun 5, 2013 4:38:20 GMT -5
I continue to believe it is an abuse to permit a signed-up propagandist for UKIP to have his own show on R3 dedicated exclusively to British composers. Would you prefer that it be dedicated to a mix of composers from various countries rather than solely to British ones? Have you in any case reported such abuse to BBC?
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Post by neilmcgowan on Jun 5, 2013 5:10:56 GMT -5
Would you prefer that it be dedicated to a mix of composers from various countries rather than solely to British ones? Have you in any case reported such abuse to BBC? As for being an 'expert', I doubt Heffer has compiled any of the programs he has presented. (I posted a message to this effect, but it was removed by persons unknown(. He has also published books claiming to establish good writing and grammar - which are so full of laughable mistakes that he's become a laughing stock. I leave such matters to the Friends of R3.
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Post by ahinton on Jun 5, 2013 5:56:17 GMT -5
Would you prefer that it be dedicated to a mix of composers from various countries rather than solely to British ones? Have you in any case reported such abuse to BBC? He has no place on a publicly-funded radio station, in any capacity. That's up to BBC insofar as his contributions thereto are concerned. His remark about the Gergiev benefit concert were indeed wholly out of order. I cannot comment on his talents or lack of them. As for being an 'expert', I doubt Heffer has compiled any of the programs he has presented. (I posted a message to this effect, but it was removed by persons unknown(. He has also published books claiming to establish good writing and grammar - which are so full of laughable mistakes that he's become a laughing stock. He's also published a book on Vaughan Williams that has attracted mixed reviews; do you suppose or at least suspect that all or at least a goodly part of this might have been ghost-written? (not having read it, I cannot comment). Have you in any case reported such abuse to BBC? I leave such matters to the Friends of R3. They certainly aren't all like that (I'm one of them, for starters and, despite being a Scot, I wouldn't even contemplate kippers at breakfast time!) and, if they were, leaving such responsibility to them would surely be a self-defeating exercise, would it not?
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Post by neilmcgowan on Jun 5, 2013 13:42:55 GMT -5
He's also published a book on Vaughan Williams that has attracted mixed reviews; do you suppose or at least suspect that all or at least a goodly part of this might have been ghost-written? (not having read it, I cannot comment). Probably the parts without factual errors, grammatical gaffes and ravings in the style of Alf Garnett were ghost-written. The rest of it would be by Simon H, I fancy?
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Post by ahinton on Jun 5, 2013 15:33:33 GMT -5
He's also published a book on Vaughan Williams that has attracted mixed reviews; do you suppose or at least suspect that all or at least a goodly part of this might have been ghost-written? (not having read it, I cannot comment). Probably the parts without factual errors, grammatical gaffes and ravings in the style of Alf Garnett were ghost-written. The rest of it would be by Simon H, I fancy? I really have no idea one way of the other and, as I wrote earlier, I've not even read it (so all the more reason for me not to jump to any conclusions).
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Post by neilmcgowan on Jul 14, 2013 12:56:43 GMT -5
Following on from UKIP loudmouth Simon Heffer, the next rightwinger to get his own show on Radio 3 is David Starkey: Crown & ChoirDr David Starkey reveals how the story of British music was shaped by its monarchyGood gracious! But I suppose deploying pseudo-historians like Starkey is all part of the BBC's efforts to soften up the public for the arrival of the Royal Sprog? Aside from Bluff King Hal's musical output ("Pastyme With Goode Companye", the Early Music National Anthem; and "Taundernaken" which he filched from Obrecht in any case) it's hard to see what genuine claims can be made for the British monarchy doing much for music. But what am I saying, "genuine claims"? This is Dr David Starkey, after all - the poor man's Roger Scruton, so the sky's the limit - why be hampered by inconvenient facts?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 0:04:09 GMT -5
Out of interest, Neil, why should we only be exposed to broadcasters whose politics you personally endorse?
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Post by neilmcgowan on Jul 15, 2013 2:01:35 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 5:53:27 GMT -5
How about neo-Neils?
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Post by ahinton on Jul 15, 2013 6:44:49 GMT -5
[quote author=neilmcgowan board=friends thread=212 post=1279 we might ask why 100% of the guest presenters, who present British music on R3, have been neofascists?[/quote] I'm not sure who "we" might be but yes, I suppose that, whoever they are, they might indeed in theory ask, but who would they ask and on what pretext? Do all BBC R3 guest presenters have demonstrable form as "neo-Fascists"? and, after all, what basis for definition of Fascists, neo- or otherwise, would "we" be using for this purpose and to what extent might it be one that is provably accepted by the majority of others who have interests in the work of BBC R3 quest presenters? Let's not forget Sorabji's remarks about Fascism being everyone else's brand of Fascism except one's own...
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Post by ahinton on Jul 15, 2013 6:48:10 GMT -5
I continue to believe it is an abuse to permit a signed-up propagandist for UKIP to have his own show on R3 dedicated exclusively to British composers. Do you also "continue to believe" that it is an abuse for a signed-up propagandist (which could be interpreted as nothing more than known and/or self-declared party member) for any other British political party, electable or otherwise, to have one, or is your concern specifically confined to those for UKIP?
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