
As I write it is 25th March 2024. The BBC Genome is an excellent idea – type in any date and select a radio or TV service, and you can see what was being broadcast on the day your son was born, or the day Auntie Florrie shat herself on a 253 bus – any day you like over the past 90 years or so.
A great idea ruined by wokery. For example, if you were listening to the Home Service on this day sixty years ago, at 9.05 a.m. you might have heard something that caused great offence. Click on the yellow bar if you dare:
This is not an isolated incident. There are similar warnings even a few years ago – Radio 2 for example often contained music from the Black **** Mills Band which triggers exactly the same warning. “Negro spirituals” is another naughty one, even if sung by Paul Robeson. I can’t imagine the sort of warning there would be for “Peter Mandelson’s Bum Fun Hour For Poofters”, which Tony Blair suggested to give his boyfriend a job when he had to sack him one Christmas.
Surely even the BBC can’t imagine there are snowflakes so fucking fragile they need to be protected in this heavy handed way. Are we men or mice?. Excuse me while I finish my cheese sandwich.
Nominated by W C Boggs.



