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Russell Brand v Thomas Hobbes: no wonder the BBC is floundering

2010-04-16T15:02:39Z

It would be wrong to imagine that Radio 2 broadcast the Russell Brand show of October 18 unedited. This Thursday, the ever diligent Daily Mail published a section that had been cut (although some podcasts subscribers may have heard it). Brand and his guest Jonathan Ross are discussing ways to appease character actor Andrew...

Vatican Britain Pope's Message

2010-12-24T10:01:06Z

This photo taken on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 and made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010, shows Pope Benedict XVI recording his message at the Vatican for the BBC radio 4 show to be aired Friday. Benedict XVI m...

Britain BBC Strike

2010-11-06T05:31:32Z

National Union of Journalists General Secretary Jeremy Dear, right, talks to BBC employees, some holding placards, as they join a strike outside the organization's television centre in west London, Friday Nov. 5, 2010. A two-day journalists' strike o...

Britain Norman Wisdom Obit

2010-10-22T13:40:13Z

FILE - British comedian Norman Wisdom points out to American film actress Shirley MacLaine, the Duke of Edinburgh's name on a record sleeve, at a record launch in London, in this Dec. 2, 1961 file photo. The Norman Wisdom laughs with the photographer, in Red Square, Moscow, USSR, in this July 18, 1965 file photo. In the background is St. Basil's Cathedral. The UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 14: (NO SALE/NO ARCHIVE) In this handout image provided by the BBC, Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks to an invited audience during a recording of the BBC's Politics Show at King Edward’s college on March 13, 2010 in