Month: July 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: News review: LibCon coalition’s police and army cuts mean tens of thousands of job losses, policy on Ketamine and other drugs, care home and day dentre cutbacks, phone hacking and Euro Quantitative Easing with Conservative councillor Chris Windows.
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Second hour: The suspicious death of News of the World reporter Sean Hoare who is a key witness against David Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson and other suspicious deaths discussed by Westcountry doctor David Halpin. Guardian journalist who originally researched the phone hacking story Nick Davies talks about Rupert Murdoch and his newspaper staff as a Power Elite with the ability to commit crime with impunity. Former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway on Murdoch’s fall from grace. Interview about the state of Britain today with Parliament Square peace campaigner Brian Haw who died last month.
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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: Guardian: Ministers urged to let schools and hospitals fail to speed up pace of privatisation. Today’s BBC journalists’ strike against compulsory redundancies. phone hacking: top police Andy Hayman and John Yates grilled by MPs on Home Affairs Select Committee, news review with Councillor Jenny Smith
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Second hour: Cuts, pensions and economic prospects Roger Thomas, Regional Vice Chair at Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) gives a public sector view. Bristol Gay Pride, rights and wrongs discussed with pastor Dia Moodly from St. Paul’s Spirit Of Life church and Mary Milton from the ShoutOut show here on BCfm. Was Britain’s MI6 one of three key players with CIA and NATO in a network of death squads? Operation Gladio: NATO’s Secret Armies part 2 with Swiss historian Daniele Ganser. Was David Cameron’s constituency chair Christopher Shale assassinated and if so, how? RIP Parliament Square protester Brian Haw talking about our responsibility for foreign wars recorded at Stop The War demo in 2008.
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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: Portugal and Greece in the crosshairs as the collapse of the Euro and other banks is put off one more time. News Of The World phone hacking story and the failure of the Metropolitan police to investigate it properly. What did Forest of Dean playwright Dennis Potter have to say about Rupert Murdoch? LibDem Cabinet member for Neighbourhoods & Lockleaze councillor Guy Poultney reviews the week’s news.
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Second Hour: Stopping the worst effects of financial meltdown: Former squatter Kitty O’Donaghue and Bristol Housing Action Movement spokesman Ben Ritchie talk about a massive eviction which may soon take place at Dale Farm in Basildon, Essex. Getting concerned about the LibCon government’s plans to criminalise squatting. Global warming and the propaganda element to showing off military air power in public while about 2000 civilians have been killed or serously injured in NATO’s operation to protect civilians in Libya. Kevin Lister blogging at Kev’s Climate Column explains why he’s helping organise next weekend’s ‘Bike Ride To Fairford Air Tattoo’ in Gloucestershire. NATO’s Secret Armies: discussion with historian Danielle Ganser about NATO’s ‘Strategy of Tension using terror against European civilians and pretending it was the Russians to put political pressure on European governments, the notorious Operation Gladio. Yorkshire police intelligence whistleblower sacked. Tony Farrell was a principle police intelligence analyst for South Yorkshire police but was sacked when he told his bosses what they didn’t want to hear, that the 7/7 London Bombings were probably not carried out by Muslim terrorists but by fascist enemies within. The strange death of David Cameron’s Constituency party chair Christopher Shale at the Glastonbury festival, assassination expert and barrister Michael Shrimption believes that GO2, a rogue element in MI6, may have murdered him.
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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: Abolition of Police Authority, public sector workers’ strike, another Greek bailout & Home Secretary orders belated arrest of Palestinian leader Sheikh Raed Salah with former MP, Cllr Doug Naysmith (Lab)
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Second hour: ‘Stealing for the Tribe’ army vet Elijah Smith, Webster Tarpley reports from Tripoli, Libya, Defence Secretary Liam Fox removes UK armed forces chiefs from MoD Defence Board & July 4th Independence from America day in North Yorkshire with Lindis Percy from the Campaign for Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)
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