I have just had the unfortunate experience of listening to Radio 4's Saturday evening offering entitled 'Loose Ends'.
This egregious show, in common with too many others on the same channel, seems mainly to advertise the latest escapades of various media personalities, pop groups or whatever. Tonight's show did have the rewarding presence of a great actress, Sian Phillips, though her appearance was simply aimed at publicising her latest venture in cabaret.
Some unknown goon talked at great length about something to do with the Israelis and a wall or fence, which he seemed to find humorous, as did at least some of the other studio guests; I suspect no Palestinian would have laughed. This was related to his book on the subject which is, apparently, being published in the Spring.
The programme was interrupted on at least 2 occasions by a noise that was introduced as being music, however, be assured that no real musician had any connection with it. Presumably, the people making the noise had an album coming out or are performing somewhere that felt the publicity would be good for sales.
Why does the BBC put out this drivel ? Programmes such as this, and 'Start the Week' and 'Midweek', as well as the morning television slots, seem to have only one purpose - to publicise the generally mediocre activities of others in the entertainment industry. By all means, let the commercial channels do this but the BBC should distance itself from this type of media back-scratching.
When I look at what my TV licence costs me, and consider what I get in return, I know full well where my axe would fall, given the chance. Let's have some proper programmes instead.
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