Cabinet minister on the Today Programme a few minutes ago said that “anyone who has any transport needs will benefit from the freeze in fuel duty”. I wish this was his idea of a funny April Fool, given the 50% increase in single bus fares a couple of months ago, 4.6% rise in rail fares last month, and impact of the driving encouraged by a(nother) duty freeze on pedestrians and cyclists. But while if asked the government will say it “doesn’t think that transport is just cars and really wants a to encourage more sustainable transport” I think he was serious.

Hurrah for #Autonormativity, also known as #CarBrain…

I really enjoyed listening to this episode of This Natural Life while running an errand on an early lunch break today. It was interesting to find out about “The Human Swan” and Conservation Without Borders - how had I not heard of these, and Sacha Dench, before?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028v02

#EUPolitics #UKPolitics I really should know better! Listening to #BBCRadio4 #PM
That super radical, #JackStraw waffling on about the #ECHR & the #ECJ 'taking away our rights'. What your right to be a complete prat or just a wannabee member of #ReformUK

The completely brilliant and lovely lovely lovely Alice Roberts on Desert Island Discs:
https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/https/vpid/p0hls17r.mp3
#AliceRoberts #DiD #DesertIslandDiscs #DiggingForBritain #Archaeology #Osteology #Anatomy #Humanism #BBC #BBCRadio4 #BBCRadio4Extra #medicine #rollerblades #education #biology

One of the advantages, one of the few advantages, of the terrible times is that it's rejuvenated Alexei Sayle.

For the young and forgetful this is a blessing indeed.

For the rest of us it's a vindication of surviving.

Kids on Ketamine #BBC #BBCRadio4 #FileOnFour

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00289q8

The #NewsQuiz suggests that the Welsh proposal to "restore trust in politics" should mean a klaxon goes off whenever a politician lies in the Senedd. I think they should do it like #QI, with their lie flashing in big letters behind them until the klaxon dies down

Please share. Donate if you can. The BBC Radio 4 Appeal was broadcast today. Supported by broadcasting legend Ken Bruce it will help UK charity #FamilyFund provide practical assistance for disabled or seriously ill young adults aged 18 to 24 living at home.

#BBC #Radio4Appeal #BBCRadio4 #Charity #Disability https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027tcl?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

I’m a true BBCRadio4@social.bbc fan, but seriously, does any like #justaminute ?
#bbc #bbcradio4

#TrumpingTheUSA A Trumper on #BBCRadio4 just confidently told us the UK has been destroyed by immigration. I can't say I've noticed. It has been damaged by #Brexit isolationism though. Don't swallow the #fascistpropaganda.
We're all far more likely to be destroyed by lies.

I'm not sure I really care, but am kinda curious: Across their network, BBC Radio seem obsessed with asking listeners to "just ask your smart speaker to 'Play 6 Music/Newscast/whatever'". Is this because they (and so in turn we) pay in an SEO keyword fashion for these phrases to activate said content and need to prove its value? #BBC #Radio #BBCRadio4 #BBC6Music

Listening to Philip Odell Investigates - 2 BBC Radio Dramas : BBC Radio 4 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

#PhilipOdell #BBCRadio4 #OTR #OldTimeRadio #Mystery #Radio

https://archive.org/details/OdellLadyinaFog

It's faintly nauseating that this programme is using Geoffrey Hinton as the absolute fount of the state of 'AI' without critical questions.

Listened to #BBCradio4 #InOurTime's episode on #OrkneyingaSaga while cooking my tea, and now wondering why on earth why on earth it hasn't been turned into a modern high production values TV series.

BBC Radio Four's Great Lives, with Reginald D. Hunter bringing Eugene Debs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026njv

We listened to a BBC Radio 4 documentary yesterday evening on the impact of the 1944 Education Act. This brought in the 11plus exam and formalised segregated state education by 'intellegence'.

Gosh there was a lot to unpack in that hour.

One comment was that it was more about ensuring a supply of workers than about ensuring social mobility - it was about keeping working people in their place.
Yes, some people did get a grammar school education they might not have got, but they were the exception (I was one).

The research underpinning the 11+ exams was faked.

It's interesting that my wife's school had written her off as someone who would go to a Secondary Modern school - but politics intervened and she went to a Comprehensive school. She ended up with more, and better, qualifications than I did. Yet I went to a Grammar School and have stumbled through education, only discovering my niche 30+ years after I left school.

It is the anniversary of the #SATTC or #ShakeAmbridgeToTheCore if I got that stupid catchphrase right. The reason I stopped listening. My dear late friend Ron checked in with me from the UK to Canada for reaction. I lasted a few months later and then came back this November. #TheArchers #BBC #BBCRadio4

Lovely to hear Ronald Binge’s son interviewed on Soul Music this evening. Ronald Binge is best known for composing Sailing By. I’ve not heard the whole programme yet. The piece was apparently in the BBC library from the mid-1960s, although the recording used for the Shipping Forecast now is an EMI recording from the 1970s. There were 2 recordings released on Rediffusion, one of which had vocals! Ronald Binge recorded with Rediffusion in the 1970s. #bbcradio4