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Thread #117813   Message #2543782
Posted By: Folkiedave
20-Jan-09 - 06:00 AM
Thread Name: BBC Folk Awards 2009
Subject: RE: BBC Folk Awards 2009
Who's for ambushing BBC trustees?

I would be but there are problems about this.

The first is that it is hard to just complain to the Trustees. You need to be complaining about a particularl programme.

Then there are three levels of gatekeepers - the final one of which tells you it cannot be sent to the trustees and by coincidence seems to open any mail that gets sent to them. And then says (again) you can't talk to the trustees.

I went through this with regard to the closing down of folk programmes (and those with long memories will recall my appearances on "Feedback" with regard to the albino rabbit and the closing of Ali Anderson's radio show on Radio Newcastle). They seem very determined to not let people talk to the trustees.

And I tried the Freedom of Information Act.