Month: February 2011

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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world. After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris.

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: £28m of budget cuts, Friday Drivetime grilled Bristol City Council’s deputy leader & LibDem councillor for Clifton East Simon Cook.
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Second hour: State of the City – An hour long look at the Middle East & North Africa uprisings. Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, looking too at the UK Libya connection, ie. Lockerbie & the shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher. With Bristolians Mohamed Elhaddad from Libya and Palestinian born Journalist Iqbal Tamimi.
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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world. After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris.

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: News review with Brislingto East Cllr. Mike Wollacott (Lab)
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Second hour: State of the City – Friday Drivetime profiles octogenarian monetary reformer Brian Leslie this week. He leads the national Green Party’s economics group & edited ‘Sustainable Economics’ magazine for the last 20 years. Brian warns the last financial crisis in the 1920s led to the second world war! All bankers’ taboos are broken tonight as we ask: How much did it cost for the bankers to buy up the British government?
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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world. After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris.

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: News review including Bristol City stadium plans in Ashton Vale and full discussion of the necessity or otherwise of financial austerity measures, or cuts, with LibDem councillor for Easton, John Kiely.
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Second hour: Transmitted on the day Egyptian despot Hosny Mubarak resigned, Friday Drivetime had a look at unreported aspects to the Egyptian revolution. Young woman Asmaa Mahfouz’s video sparked the uprising; Egypt’s former interior minister is being questioned for ordering bombings of Churches & Coptic Christians protected Muslims in Tahrir Square. Finally we had a close look at political vetting at the BBC.
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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling

At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world. After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris.

For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

First hour: News review. Revolution in Egypt, plus economics of forest & parks sell-off with Cllr Steve Comber (Lib)
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Second hour: No job? No money? You could still build your own home with Bristol’s new Community Land Trust; George Ferguson – Bristol’s architecture, The Merchant Venturers, Ashton Gate Sainsbury’s proposal [web] & how George lost his Evening Post column; Jewish groups fighting for peace and equality with arabs.
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