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A supported: Urge BBC to Honor Giuffre as a Victim, Not an AccuserI survived suicide twice and felt devastated it hadn’t worked at the time,but now I’m so glad it didn’t because I met my wanderful partner and I moved away from all the toxic people in my life and I couldn’t be happier.
Angela supported: Ban the publication of articles exploiting inquest findings relating to suicideI was deeply saddened to tune in to A Point of View on Sunday morning, a practice I have enjoyed for many years, only to discover the Howard Jacobson’s melancholy musing the week before was the last programme. We are told that this for “re imagining” or cost cutting of BBC programming. This imagination must be in service of an intellectual minnow minded populist. This is yet again a further step toward the lowest common denominator by which the BBC is consistently ‘imagining’ itself. A Point of View sits with a number of other endangered programmes against a barrage of ephemeral chat shows and thoroughly weak ideas.
A Radio essay of this sort is unique. Its form allows a contemplation that doesn’t exist in other formats. The opportunity to share the current considered thoughts of some our leading writers is a source of intellectual stimulation and often great comfort in knowing that there are other quality thinkers who are not led by sound bites and click bait.
The person/committee responsible for this decision may well despise programmes like Point of View and In Our Time but they should recognise that these serve a constituency just as significant as the needs of other listeners. Many of us who listen to these more considered programmes are hardly served at all by general programming and yet we continue to loyally pay our licence fees. A populist driven agenda is never going to foster genuine diversity of thought that is the healthy foundation of liberal democracy.
I call on the BBC to reinstate A Point of View and to fulfil its role laid down by Lord Reith to continue to inform and educate and not just to entertain.
Geoffrey supported: Bring back Radio 4's Show "A Point of View"As an American, I know for a fact my Anglophilia was started in childhood due to exposure to BBC series (Wallace & Gromit, Mr. Bean & Teletubbies most prominently) and it has continued through my adult life primarily through BBC Radio/BBC Sounds.
My tweets were featured on Chris Hawkins' Radio 6 show when I was 22-24 (I'm 32 now) and I love Jo Wiley, Craig Charles, numerous Radio 4 Books of the Week and I've been a dedicated listener of The Archers for 5 years. The various stations have gotten me through some rough times in my life and add joy to my days.
Apart from me, though, as other commentors have said, Britain's biggest tool to promote itself globally is the worldwide availability of its radio stations.
Even radio from the smallest countries can be heard via the Internet so for the BBC to cut off its enormous global radio audience by disconnecting BBC Sounds would be nothing short of cultural vandalism and certainly not within the best interests of the Corporation.
Tom supported: Prevent the BBC from Ceasing Worldwide Broadcast of Radio StationsImagine if you and your family were living in Gaza and this was happening to you, the least we can do to help is share information and evidence of the atrocities being committed against the people of Palestine.
raza supported: Reinstate the BBC's Gaza documentaryThe Palestinian people have suffered so much in this terrible war which has been going on for decades without any sign of an end in sight. They get no support from any of the countries throughout this world. They are treated as if they are not human beings. They have lost everything- their homes have been taken from them and their schools have been bulldozed. Nobody seems to care about them. This documentary should be shown so that the world can witness the injustices under which they have suffered.
The Palestinian people deserve to have their own country. Gaza needs to be rebuilt as does the lives of its people. I pray that they get their country back and get the
Maureen supported: Reinstate the BBC's Gaza documentaryI keep myself informed from sources outside of mainstream media but many people don't and just stick to BBC, ITV etc. Palestinian people as a whole are suffering outside of our understanding. I never thought I'd see the day where children are being made orphans in their thousands, had to go without food and clean water, be forced to live in tents (if "lucky" enough to have a tent), witness constant death and mutilation. I am traumatised by witnessing this on my phone and can't even imagine their torment and trauma. The Israeli state recently celebrated the "elimination" of the 2 year old grandson of a Hamas official and taking this programme down due to a child's link to a member of Hamas is equally unthinkable - hes still living this horrendous experience. The very, very least we can do is to listen to and hear their story.
Jacqueline supported: Reinstate the BBC's Gaza documentaryChildren’s lives are more important than anything else. How can anyone not see that: those children who survive will already be so damaged both physically and mentally. We have lost our humanity if we turn our backs on them.
Alexandra supported: Reinstate the BBC's Gaza documentaryThe voices of children affected by war, genocide, terrorism, and/or other such atrocities deserve to be heard. While it is true that the narrator's father has ties to Gaza's Hamas government (although not necessarily in the context of militancy), regardless, this is a boy who personally has done nothing wrong and just wants to live his life normally, like every other child. The voices of people like him need to be heard so the world can understand the depth of human suffering across the world, and if the BBC doesn't take responsibility, they are bound to contribute, albeit not directly, to the censorship of the suffering in question.
Sebastian supported: Reinstate the BBC's Gaza documentaryThis documentary deserves recognition and commendation, not censorship.
It is a compelling well made and informative film that BBC licence fee payers should be able to watch and the BBC should be proud to stand by.
It is in the public interest that stories from Gaza be told, particularly those of the living Palestinian children (who make up a huge percentage of the population) whose stories are theirs alone regardless of their parentage. If the BBC continues with this censorship and it's inadequate reporting of the events in Gaza, I will and have good reason to believe that many others will cancel their licencing fees and go elsewhere to learn about current events and watch the news.
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