Month: August 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: Will the banksters get their come-uppance? Don’t hold your breath! Phone Hacking, a criminal mastermind in Downing Street? Elderly Care Home privatisation. Does Britain have an industrial policy? Woman reported attack but ‘Police laughed at me’. Police use of pepper spray & Tasers. Are the Independent Police Complaints Authority trusted? LibDem MP for Bath Don Foster helps us review the week’s national & interntional news.
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Second Hour: Human Rights violations, setting dangerous precedents & possible oil-grab motives in Libya. A Different World: former SOGAT copytaker remembers Rupert Murdoch’s 1986 Wapping printworkers strike. Karen Cole from UNITE on Conservative Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s NHS reorganisation. Dale Farm Travellers site in Basildon, Essex awaits Britain’s biggest eviction ever. Parliament Square resident & Brian Haw’s friend Barbara Tucker arrested & now in Holloway prison. 1992 BBC Timewatch documentary: Italian Neo-fascist Vincenzo Vintiguerra explains NATO’s Gladio network of secret far right neo-fascist  terror cells.
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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: Inflation rises to 4%, Economic crisis, State owned Royal Bank of Scotland funding outlawed cluster bombs, The Big Society Bank opens, funded by so-called dormant bank accounts (do banks try hard to find the legal beneficiary?), spending cuts, this week’s rioting & Bristol Graffiti ‘See No Evil’ event, news review with Shadow Treasury Minister & Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy
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Second hour: Max Keiser: US military spending deadline, will there be a spectacular false flag attack on (and by) the West in the next 90 days?. Newsnight Economics Editor Paul Mason ‘No bullets left in the economic clip’? Writer and peace campaigner Joanne Baker looks at violation of international law, civillian casualties & depleted uranium being used in UK & NATO Libya bombing campaign. “At what stage are people prepared to go to war with Great Britain and the United States of America?” Big bomb in Britain? Then we take a look at Israel and Syria and the wider prospects for the Middle East. Former wife of US Marine Corps Colonel George Griggs passes on what her husband told her when he was drunk. Cults, assassination and corruption in the US military, Kay Griggs speaks out.
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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: King Mervyn’s troubled Economy, London riots, cars burned out in Bristol, killing of Mark Duggan in Tottenham last Thursday, Bus & Rail public transport & biggest single loss of life after 10 years, Chinook shot down in Afghanistan? News review with Ashley LibDem Cllr John Rogers.
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Second hour: New government planning guidance that makes building of nuclear power stations a lot easier with Mike Birkin from SW Friends of the Earth. Strategy Of Tension on the Streets? Guardian: There is a context to London’s riots that can’t be ignored. Eyewitnesses Alex Hutchings & Will Stinton review the Stokes Croft Easter riots. Discussion too about context of recent rioting in London and elsewhere. Avon & Somerset police invited. Marina Morris looks at the West’s most favoured blonde daughter Timoshenkoa & her political trial in Ukraine. (thought for the week: Most economic crashes happen in the Autumn)
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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: Markets meltdown, public transport, LibDems propose decriminalisation of drugs, BBC Strike & Libya from the point of view of Asiel, a 19 year old Libyan-born London student. Weekly news review with Frome Vale Cllr Lesley Alexander (Con).
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Second hour: Retired Frenchay Consultant Doctor Chris Burns-Cox and patient advocate Daphne Havercroft look into the NHS privatisation. Sunday Times investigative journalist Michael Gillard gives us his take on the phone hacking crisis and shines the spotlight on the UK Crime Reporters’ Association. US Marine Corps veteran and Director of Studies at the US Army War College Alan Sabrosky gives his opinion how & why Israel carried out the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
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