Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament

Subject: RE: Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Oct 12 - 11:05 AM

cowardly sacking over the phone

Again I point out that he was not sacked but retired, and he was given nearly three month's notice of it. And what is "cowardly" about a senior manager ringing somebody personally to give them this news? Cowardly would have been to get a minion to send a form letter, an email or text message with no notice at all. Specialist music presenters on local radio get that sort of treatment all the time, sometimes without even the chance to do a final goodbye programme.

Subject: RE: Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament
From: GUEST,Billy Mill
Date: 31 Oct 12 - 11:10 AM

Hasn't anyone wrote a song about this yet?

Subject: RE: Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament
From: Snuffy
Date: 31 Oct 12 - 01:27 PM

You mean like

"A proper sort of programme of the Mr Harding kind."

Subject: RE: Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament
From: GUEST,FloraG
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 05:09 AM

I think the BBC need to walk as though on egg shells, especially now.

Still overpaid and sexist. I see no increase in womens sport, despite the realization at the olimpics that they did to much mens' sport.

They have reduced the number of minor admin people earning mega bucks - but still generous and now we find them tax avoiding!

We can now add dubious employment practices. There are ways and ways to treat people. I read yesterday that the first some of the people at UBS knew they were sacked was when their swipe card no longer fitted in the door!

For a number of years, we used to help out at a local festival - do anything asked - a barn dance here or a pub there or do the bandstand - sometimes at short notice during the week. We did not ask for any money, although sometimes we got expenses. One year we were about to book time off from work and thought, the working programme has not arrived. This was the first we knew that they did not want us that year. Not a good way to find out. There is no good way to be sacked - but some are better than others.
FloraG

Subject: RE: Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 09:45 AM

And cowardly also applies to not using your real name to criticise someone else on a message board.

Dave H [ real name ]

Subject: RE: Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament
From: GUEST,Chris Murray
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 01:25 PM

The evidence is all here on Mudcat which I've followed for a long time. If I had months to waste, I could go through the archives and make a list but I've got a life to live and can't be bothered.

I listen to the show every week (which is more than most people on this thread do - I know, another over-generalisation!) and quite like Mike but I also enjoy folk music shows presented by other presenters. It's the music that's important, not the presenter. I understand that Mike perceives that he has been treated unfairly and sympathise with him.

I saw Mike's live show last year and I do know the song "Bomber Moon". My dad was a bomber pilot in the last war.

I think that covers everything! Why are so many people on this board so aggressive and determined to start an argument.

Subject: RE: Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament
From: Mr Red
Date: 01 Nov 12 - 01:38 PM

Some Festival organisers are businessmen - not Folkies.
Do you want me to name names?



Er PM me.

Subject: RE: Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Dec 12 - 07:51 AM

So, let's see if MR has any provence now?...........

Subject: RE: Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament
From: pavane
Date: 31 Dec 12 - 09:21 AM

I listened to Mike's last program, where the records were his own choice - only 2 (though very good) traditional songs in the whole hour, which is what has been disappointing to me in his programs. Yes, new songs but please, not exclusively. We understood that in most programs, the playlist was not his own choice, so we can't blame him for that. The request programs tended to be much better IMHO. Will the new guy have any more say in what is played? And back in the days of Folkweave, and Folk Song Cellar, we had many excellent amateur performers and beginners (like Sandy Denny in 1966), who no longer get any air time.

Subject: RE: Mike Harding Fiasco Reaches Parliament
From: GUEST,Matt
Date: 04 Jan 13 - 03:39 PM

Now you can check it out for youself:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pgrp0