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The culling of late night BBC Radio Scotland. “The Bauerisation of Scottish public broadcasting.”
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The Wire being on terrestrial telly is truly odd, I think. People are saying ‘it’s rubbish’, having watched three episodes, clearly without ever hearing Wiremeister David Simon’s brutal dismissals of ‘the average viewer’, in whom he claims not even to be slightly interested. In fact, it’s not a series for watching casually on the box;…
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This was mentioned, somewhat sniffily, by Ed Stourton on this morning’s Today Programme (Radio Four: the wife insists). But then, he isn’t in it. Perhaps he wasn’t up for wearing a posing pouch. Sure beats a red nose… It’s part of an experiment conducted by the programme on so-called viral marketing. It’s a bit clumsy…
