On a not dis-similar vein, the following was told to me by a friend who runs some businesses, one being a workshop where he and three employees work. He has been badgered by mail for some time about applying for a licence to allow his employees to listen to the radio while working and has not responded. He was visited the other day by persons behind the correspondence pointing out he was committing an offence having his radio on in the workshop where anyone in earshot could hear it, employee or visiting customer. He immediately took the radio, cut the plug from the lead, binned the pair of them and, in his own inimitable fashion, requested they leave his premises saying his employees would be allowed to listen on their own personal head sets or car radios. Such was his strongly stated objection to their prescence and his invitation to leave that he was advised "If he carried on like that he could be prosecuted".

    What could he be done for? Verbally abusing a "Jobsworth"?
    If it is about performing rights, could he claim exemption by having only news programmes or Radio 4 talks and plays on?
Have not the BBC already paid the artists fees?

Can somebody tell me what is going on in this country?