Presenter Andrea Catherwood on tonight's 'Feedback' on BBC Radio 4 is STILL struggling to get a BBC spokesman to explain what on earth is going on with the withdrawal of BBC sound radio outside of UK!

   It was mainly about the consequences of this vandalism to the many BBC listeners in the Irish Republic and even to the peace process.

Now I don't think many Irish listeners would seek out the BBC for traditional music, but the lack of a Northern voice will create a political inbalance. I am sure RTE has no such plans for their Northern radio broadcasts.

   Just to clarify and to make sure mudcat folk outside UK know this- in WEEKS all BBC radio will be quite unavailable to them, apart from Radios 1234 & World Service, and the BBC will not explain why, as they continue to hold their listeners in absolute contempt in their usual manner