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Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve started listening to BBC World Service instead of #r4today since yesterday

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Pete @countzerorepeat.bsky.social · 2h

#r4today is there any far-right political party Webb doesn't like or platform?

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 2h

Good idea. 👍

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 2h

90% of BBC coverage of Gaza is through the prism of Israel.
#r4today

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 2h

Of course Webb interjects on the side of the far right French guy.
He would wouldn't he?
#r4today

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 2h

BBC FoI request on who Tony Blair met 20 years ago.
Why not one now on who Nigel Fraud met 20 years ago and since?
#r4today

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 13h

Engaging in conversation with the BBC World Service programme Crowdscience, starting with decades-old scribblings about the water in my tap having passed through countless dinosaurs before I got to drink it...

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 12h

So called Tech billionaires reveals that they are bonkers 🤷

#r4today #wato #bbcpm

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 1d

Very true. 😉

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 1d

Tbf; the BBC was way behind on the post office scandal - Private Eye was reporting it for years. On that timescale, the BBC should be right on top of the hacking scandal some time in the 2030s. #r4today

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Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗 @sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 1d

I don't pay for it.

Radio 4 is now just a fossil record of itself.

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John D. Lewis @johndlewis.bsky.social · 1d

YESSSSS! I thought that. Sort of more "breathy" and softer and (I think she thinks) "seductive".

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 1d

Steady on John.
Your glasses will be steaming up.
🤷👍😂😂😂

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1d

#r4today

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The Conservatives have pledged they will increase the number of deportations to 150k/year

- while significantly reducing the size of the civil service
- without increasing government spending and taxation.
- and opposing mandatory identification.

migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

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Candidfloss @candidfloss.bsky.social · 1d

I think I’m allergic to R4, haven’t listened to it since I was a child. Dad listened to it all the time & it kind of turned me off. They sounded like the were broadcasting from an underground bunker (no, I’m
not that old!). I do miss Just A Minute though 😄

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 1d

I know what you mean, but I persisted through the John Harrumphries years and now we have this lot.
We pay for it so it should be better.
Btw Just a Minute is now an irregular migrant and not as good without Nicholas Parsons.
#r4today

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 1d

Is it odd that #r4today cheer lead the abysmal post office scandal, but I have not heard mention of the Hacked Off scandal of media wrongdoings, also currently a tv drama?

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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 1d

It goes without saying that no one should be intimidated or attacked for who they are but we know in this particular case that anti-semitism is often weaponised by pro-Netanyahu agents to muzzle pro-Palestine protests. The important Q is what definition of harrassment being used here #r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 1d

Why didn’t Nick Robinson challenge Yvette “let me be clear” Cooper on this?

She falsely claimed that the intelligence services backed the proscription of Palestine Action. That wasn’t true - so why isn’t the Home Secretary being held accountable for lying to the public?

#r4today

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.
The second row are better than most of the front row.
#r4today

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Citizen Ann @citizenann.bsky.social · 1d

My go to 'summer upper' . Similarly Lyse and many others working for BBC on the ground.

alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 1d

Fair to say Jeremy Bowen has had a good war?
#r4today

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 1d

John Mann is working on it?
#r4today

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The Thompsonian @thethompsonian.bsky.social · 1d

Are we to hear reports from any of these antisemitic celebratory demonstrations? Some recordings of chanting students? Interviews with activists? You know. Evidence that they actually took place. #r4today

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Candidfloss @candidfloss.bsky.social · 1d

I was listening to her on LBC. She started to get a little tetchy when he asked her about something she didn’t like so the “Cadbury Caramel Bunny” voice isn’t a complete transformation 🤣🐰

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 1d

I don't blame her getting tetchy with Ferrari.
Robinson is marginally easier to listen to.
🤷🤫
#r4today

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