Post by Feta on Aug 17, 2010 6:23:02 GMT -5
On Saturday, I was casually listening to 'Meeting Myself Coming Back', featuring Peter Mandelson, and had to go to the supermarket before it closed. I was just beginning to get interested, but quite confident that it would be repeated later in the week at least once. Sure enough, on Monday at 3pm, it was, along with 'The Food Programme' an hour later.
Now that 'The History of the World in a Hundred Objects' is being repeated in its entirety, and not just through the day, the question of the BBC cutting costs by giving us the viewers 'another chance to hear' comes up again. With the Asian Network scrapped and 6 Music barely spared the chop, it's hardly realistic to say that the Beeb would stint at saving money on original programming if they could direct those savings at preventing further station cuts.
So how about a simple, honest admission that R4 is not so different from C4 when it comes to managing material?
Now that 'The History of the World in a Hundred Objects' is being repeated in its entirety, and not just through the day, the question of the BBC cutting costs by giving us the viewers 'another chance to hear' comes up again. With the Asian Network scrapped and 6 Music barely spared the chop, it's hardly realistic to say that the Beeb would stint at saving money on original programming if they could direct those savings at preventing further station cuts.
So how about a simple, honest admission that R4 is not so different from C4 when it comes to managing material?