Blogging the Beeb

Programme Promises

The BBC's Programme Promises were published yesterday.

Gilligan

Gilligan attacks Marsh.

Yawn.

Play for Today

The BBC may bring back the Play for Today.

Gerry Anderson

Gerry Anderson has made it into the UK Broadcast Hall of Fame. That won't please some Radio 4 listeners who campaigned to get him removed from the station in the 1990s.

Little Britain

Johann Hari hates it.

So does Mick Hume.

Domming Down

The BBC Governors have ordered an inquiry into the language used on the children's TV programme Dick and Dom, according to The Times:

The corporation’s governors have cautioned that slang and poor language employed by the corporation’s stars could create a generation of children unable to master English.

Meanwhile grammar expert and best-selling author Lynne Truss says:

Blaming the BBC for such a decline would be to miss the obvious: that the BBC is reflecting a shift that is occurring elsewhere in the language.

And BBC News has this.

BBC and Middle England

Peter Hitchens argued in yesterday's Mail on Sunday that the BBC was needed, not least for Radio 4, but it had to get back in touch with Middle England. However, the MoS hides its columnists' copy away behind a paid-for site, so there is no link available.