Will the BEEB play it

[Ray Scully]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/tv-r ... 737814.ece

Will the BEEB play it should the BEEB play it
discuss

Ray

[Dark Knight]

I f this is a piece of serious news?, worthy of debate and comment , then our country is further in the shite, than I thought

[qbman1]

Apparently, it was in the Daily Mail too - so it must be right !!!

[Ray Scully]

Apparently, it was in the Daily Mail too - so it must be right !!!

I shall pop out and get a copy straight away

Ray

[Dark Knight]

Ray
pick one up for me, we have run out of cat litter......cheers

[Ray Scully]

H

Ray
pick one up for me, we have run out of cat litter......cheers

[oldbluefox]

I think Maggie would be revelling in it and would most certainly have been against its ban. However it also exemplifies how low some people can stoop and shows a total disregard for the feelings of her family. Many copies will have been bought by kids who never knew MT but think it's a good idea to jump on the bandwagon.
I have mixed feelings over whether it should be played or not. By playing it does the BBC set up a precedent for future manipulation of the charts. It also would beg the question why the drawings of Mohammed were never displayed by the BBC.
Distasteful though it is I would be tempted to play the music, give those who have bought it their moment of glory and in return insist that her funeral be allowed to pass without incident.

[Mo2013]

Personally I would not buy this record and I would not like to hear it played on the radio, but what someone considers to be in bad taste is someone else's freedom of speech. We live in a free country and have freedom of speech and we are all free to do, and say, what we please. Some may want to hear this record on the radio whilst others will complain that it shouldn't be aired. If it is played and someone takes offence then that is their problem. But other people have a right to listen to it. You cannot stop anyone from expressing themselves. This forum in itself is proof of that. This country may have a large swathe of population which is crass and ill-mannered, loutish and rude, but that's the way it goes I'm afraid.

[gfwgfw]

Pass . . . .

[noddy10]

Of course it should be played we live in a democracy which we keep on preaching to the rest of the world and if it was banned just to please a minority this is dictatorship. If it had obscene words or language in it that would be different but just to ban it to please Thatcher lovers would be wrong.

[Silver_Shiney]

Unless things have changed in recent years, the charts are a political statement anyway, and nothing to do with sales. My reasons for saying this are:

My BIL, when he was a pro drummer, was asked to play on a track because "it is booked in at No 14 next week".

When stationed in the middle east, I was a dj on the base radio station and it was my job to "do" the Top 20 on a Sunday night. Now, we all know that the charts are compiled on the preceding Friday.... The way it worked was we'd tune into the World Service and then (I think it was) Simon Bates would introduce each record. The sound quality, because it was long wave radio, was atrocious, too bad for listening to the music. So, on the Monday before, the weekly aircraft would bring in the script and the records that would be new to the chart. So if something was "straight in at number one" on the Friday, we already knew about it because we had the record in our sweaty paws.

Should the BBC play this record? The record itself has nothing to do with Baroness Thatcher or her recent demise so, in that respect, there should be no objection to it being played. However, because rent-a-mob have made it their sick anthem, then in the interests of public order and good taste, I don't think it should be played. But that's just me.

I see that the BBC have announced that it won't be played in its entirety.

[Boris+]

Hmmm - well in retaliation I think we should all nominate a different piece of music and go out and buy loads ot it.

Em

[oldbluefox]

On the radio it said there would be 5 seconds and then a journalist would explain why.

Em, I think if we did that it would make us equally as pathetic.

[Dark Knight]

For balance
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher by the well know Burnely band the notsensibles

there is always another angle....

[gfwgfw]

Looks as if the BEEB has got it about right as outlined on tonight's national news channel

[ChesterfieldJohn]

For balance
I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher by the well know Burnely band the notsensibles

there is always another angle....

I heard them suggest that on 5live today

John

[Not so ancient mariner]

Well, wherever this odious piece of spite gets to in the charts, I very much doubt if it will be because of any intrinsic musical merit!

[gfwgfw]

Spot on dear sir

[Kendhni]

I think Maggie would be revelling in it and would most certainly have been against its ban.

Given many of the reports from those closest to her, you are probably right ... and the real irony is that it is, in part, her legacy that helped provide the ability for such things to happen. While everybody seems to criticise Thatcherism, I have yet to meet anybody who does not embrace its ideals when it suits them.

However it also exemplifies how low some people can stoop and shows a total disregard for the feelings of her family. Many copies will have been bought by kids who never knew MT but think it's a good idea to jump on the bandwagon.
I have mixed feelings over whether it should be played or not. By playing it does the BBC set up a precedent for future manipulation of the charts. It also would beg the question why the drawings of Mohammed were never displayed by the BBC.
Distasteful though it is I would be tempted to play the music, give those who have bought it their moment of glory and in return insist that her funeral be allowed to pass without incident.

I agree, and it shows just how obnoxious some people are. I don't believe in censorship and I wonder how the writer/composer would feel about this abuse of his music.

[Manoverboard]

Edwina, of curried eggs fame, said this morning that Mrs T would have told the BBC ...

" Either play it or don't play it but DO stop dithering "

[Silver_Shiney]

My son-in-law hates Mrs T with a passion and had frequently said there was a bottle of champagne on ice to celebrate the day - but even he says this circus is going too far and he deplores the planned riots and disruption - "there are lines you do not cross".

[CaroleF]

I was listening to the 5pm news on Radio 4 last night (a sign of old age!) and they reported on this decision the BBC had to make about whether to play this track or not - and then they played it!!

Carole

[Not so ancient mariner]

Old age??? I have been listening to the Radio 4 five o'clock news on the car radio (on the days I finished work early enough to do so) since 1981. It would have been longer than that, but my first car didn't actually have a radio!