Your patience, gentles all , for this is yet another cunting for the Barmy Bullshit Corporation, and I am sincerely sorry if you are already up to here with the crass wokery of this arse-alike outlet. Forgive me.
R4 Extra can still dredge up some decent programming, invariably more than 20 years old, and accompanied by dire warnings that the material may not be politically sanitised. I still listen to it, while hoping against hope that the quality will not decline further. Sure, sure…
I give you R4Xtra’s current production of Ibsen’s Dolls’ House. A respectable enough work of Great Literature, albeit written by a Norwegian cunt and available only in translation if you don’t speak Danish or Bokmål. Regarded as a feminist play (Ibsen denied this), it is lacking only one dimension. Guess what?
Well done you. It needs to be relocated to the British Raj, doesn’t it? With a scintillating cast of subcontinental heroes and European villains*:
Niru Indira Varma
Tom Toby Stephens
Mrs Lahiri Shaheen Khan
Kaushik Das Shiv Grewal
Uma Rani Moorthy
Dr Rank Conrad Nelson
Bob James Allen
* The characters’ names -except Dr Rank’s – have been changed to protect the wokeness.
So not content with fucking up our own culture the Bastard Bollocks Corporation is starting on the Nordics now? Jonas Gahr Støre, the Norwegian PM, needs to call in the British Ambassador for a thorough cunting with an axe.
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