World Service Kills Off Arts Programme

[Guest]

BBC World Service is planning to kill off its marvellous fast-paced arts programme The Strand, featuring the mellifluous voices & acute intelligence of Harriet Gilbert mostly and Anna McNamee otherwise

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/10/bbc-kills-off-major-arts-strand.html

Another nail in the coffin of serious arts programming on the BBC and I can't believe that it costs a bomb to make

[salymap]

Yes,that's very sad amateur51. I didn't know that.

[gurnemanz]

I have often landed on it by chance on DAB having retreated from Radio 3 or 4. It is surely the last thing they should be cutting.

[Lateralthinking1]

A good programme that injects some soul into the World Service. Consequently, petition now signed!

[french frank]

I'm currently working on a paper about the funding of Radio 3 and the BBC arts output in general over the past ten years. The hard evidence is appearing to confirm that for the BBC the 'value' of any programme is primarily measured by the size of the audience it can attract.

[MrGongGong]

I'm currently working on a paper about the funding of Radio 3 and the BBC arts output in general over the past ten years. The hard evidence is appearing to confirm that for the BBC the 'value' of any programme is primarily measured by the size of the audience it can attract.

If this is the case then for folk like myself we are well and truly doooooomed

[Globaltruth]

BBC World Service is planning to kill off its marvellous fast-paced arts programme The Strand, featuring the mellifluous voices & acute intelligence of Harriet Gilbert mostly and Anna McNamee otherwise

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/10/bbc-kills-off-major-arts-strand.html

Another nail in the coffin of serious arts programming on the BBC and I can't believe that it costs a bomb to make

They killed off the World Service World Music show a while back - so, this isn't a surprise. Mark Coles, presenter on both The Strand and the World of Music programmes now broadcasts independently...

[Stanfordian]

This is terrible news. These days I find myself listening to the BBC World Service less and less. Through the night the content seems packed with programmes about Africa in which I only have a moderate interest.

[gingerjon]

I don't often like to sound like an angry Home Counties green-ink scribbler but what is being done to the World Service by this government is beyond disgusting.

A model of serious content (and political 'soft power') being run down by ignorant clots in the name of austerity and kicking the BBC.