Friday Drivetime

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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