#save the bbc

[secondgenerationimmigrant]

Petition Against the Privatisation of BBC Radio

More crap leaking out of TheresaMay’ssupposed “government for all”.

Did you know that under the BBC's new draft charter, a whopping 60% of radio content will come from private providers? We can't let our radio programmes be controlled by profit-driven corporations rather than those serving the public interest.

Join me in telling Theresa May not to privatise our public service broadcaster: https://actions.sumofus.org/a/theresa-may-save-the-bbc-from-privatisation?sp_ref=247639060.99.177204.e.0.2&referrer_id=8036092&source=mlt

Thanks!

[bowtiesnbraces]

Save the BBC

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/bbccuts#petition Dont let the goverment make the BBC line their back pockets! Find out more at the link above! It Will only take two seconds out of ur infinite and beautiful Life. Sign the position and share !! The petition is so close to its goal! And of you do it for nothing else do it for call the midwife!!!

[almaviva90]

‘Good luck on Tuesday, Tony Hall! Ditch the government deal and #BackTheBBC’

Bertie coming back in force today to #BackTheBBC (x)

[petallant-blog]

I miss the BBC as much as my dog

Anyone who reckons the BBC needs to sack off for itself needs to move out to a place where you can’t access the BBC cos I miss it like kerazzzyyy.  I miss knowing whats going on in the world, I miss the bippbipp theme tune of the ten o clock news, I miss Steve Lamaqs dulcet tones, I miss the generally unbiased way of news reporting, I miss the inclusivity of the programmes, I miss being able to chuck on the TV and have a variety of not-shit TV.  You don’t know what shit TV is until you see a thirty minute programme made of a bunch of people making choreography to thirty seconds of a variety of Taylor Swift songs.  I miss seeing ‘Bexleyheath’ pop up on the news bulletins.  I miss Huw Edwards, I miss ‘edgy’ documentaries (with a girl who quite frankly I can’t stand but I stick about for the story), I miss Live Lounge, I miss Radio 6 sessions, I miss the one show, I miss pointless. 

There is a lot more, but it’s 7am in Hanoi and my coffee hasn’t kicked in.  Suffice to say I really really hope the BBC sticks about and attitudes towards it change because life without it sucks. 

The End.

[almaviva90]

Bertie Carvel: ‘BBC must be protected from government cuts’

The Doctor Foster star claims BBC takes more creative risks than commercial rivals, and produces content superior to that on US television

Go Bertie.

[abitvertiginous]

Bertie Carvel, addresses fans of Doctor Who known as "Whovians" Save the BBC protest, London, Britain - 23 Nov 2015. Supporters of the BBC gathered outside Broadcasting House in central London to oppose the threat of 20% government cuts to the Corporation which has brought shows such as Dr Who since 1922. Photo by Stephen Chung/LNP/REX Shutterstock.

[almaviva90]

'If the BBC is dismantled, we can never get it back.' 

Another shot of Bertie at the rally today (sans legs), courtesy of Equity’s Twitter account.

And if you haven’t signed the petition yet (and the link to which @etave has so kindly given), please do! It’s simply madness what the British government is planning to do to this great institution.

[almaviva90]

Bertie being an utter gem and giving a speech at Broadcasting House at the Save the BBC Rally earlier today...so wish I could be there to give my support (*wishes for the umpteenth time that I wasn’t living on the other side of the world*)!

Lovely photo courtesy of this lovely Tweeter. :)