Category: Politics Show with Tony Gosling

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: Defence secretary Liam Fox resigns after lying to parliament & allowing secret arms deal broker Adam Werrity to run a shadow foreign policy with his charity Atlantic Bridge which was funded by a corporate intelligence firm, hedge fund boss, an Israeli arms tycoon and others. NHS privatisation and the ‘arms length’ approach of future Health ministers; future of nuclear power in Bristol & Britain after Fukushima disaster; Shelter report, private rents are unaffordable in 55% of local authorities in England; Lords communication committee hears evidence from The Guardian’s Nick Davies who warns that journalists only have one third of the time they need to write stories and warns of ‘information chaos’ to come; time is up for Bristol’s pubs as they close at the rate of one every three weeks; news review with Cllr Ron Stone (Lab).
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Second hour: Conservative MPs Jack Lopresti and Chris Skidmore cancel three appearances each on this show plus Bristol NHS chiefs Ruth Brunt & John Savage and Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Colin Port also repeatedly refuse to appear, exploration of possible reasons why. US Occupy Wall Street campaign hears from Roseanne Barr, Michael Moore and Joe Stiglitz. Former banker Michael Hudson looks at a the failure of the left to propose state control of banking. South London gangster Charlie Richardson walks out of jail straight into a job in the City of London – organised crime in the Metropolitan police, government & City of London – extract from The History of Organised Crime by David Southwell. Martin Summers’ world news roundup – Alexander Litvinenko inquest opens in London, Was there really a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabian ambassador to US? Egyptian military orchestrating sectarian violence between Coptic Christians and Muslims. EU recognises Syrian resistance movement in Syria. Plan to occupy the London Stock Exchange and Bristol’s College Green tomorrow. Money reform: Bromsgrove group this weekend and Positive money conference on Saturday 29th October. Discussion on the state of the region’s roads and driving as the most common social interraction – as pubs and libraries close – with Sherry Townsend.
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Link to my three hour BCfm music show for John Peel Day 2011 – Tuesday 11th October 9pm to midnight.
Backup & track listing for hours 1, 2 and 3

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 Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King announces printing £750bn (QE2) bank ‘tapeworm’ made itself indispensible to our biology; Conservative party conference Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne‘s speech and his ‘three mistakes’; David Cameron‘s ‘dog fight’ speech; 700-800 news jobs to be slashed in latest BBC cuts; reduction in size of Bristol’s wheelie bins; Tesco’s worst sales in twenty years; elderly people’s drop-in Trinity Day Centre closes in Hotwells on 31st October; police raid countless cannabis farms but not crack cocaine or heroin dealers in Operation Viscount; will Gary Hopkins stand for election as police commissioner; with LibDem Councillor for Knowle and Executive member for waste Gary Hopkins.
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Second hour: Will the Temple Meads local enterprise zone really create jobs? New nuclear power, all eyes on Hinkley, new LibCon planning regime with Mike Birkin from South West Friends Of The Earth. Russian Oligarchs legal fight on London stage; Roman Abramovich & Boris Berezovsky locked in Sibneft Oil legal challenge. Wall Street occupation before London Stock Exchange on 15th October. Did British Security Services help Loyalist terrorists to murder Natonalist Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan ten years ago? Tony Gosling spoke to Martin on the phone weeks before he was killed in 2001. Details from Tony’s notebook of individuals named by Martin as masonic journalists and masonic lodges in the Houses of Parliament. Zombie banks stalking the City of London? Fraud at Banco Ambrosiano & masonic ritual murder, on 18th June 1982, of Vatican banker Roberto Calvi in London. Extract from Martin Short’s 1989 Granada TV documentary Inside The Brotherhood parts one, two and three. Based on his book of the same name. Are there lessons to be learned in understanding today’s banking crisis?
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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: Does Gary Hopkins aspire to be the first Avon & Somerset police commissioner? Residents’ parking, new Bristol City council website & Bristol Evening Post makeover; Euro crisis; independent South London trader Alessio Rastani says ‘The market is toast‘ & ‘Goldman Sachs rules the world‘; public sector pension strikes loom; Ken Loach on PPPs, PFIs & privatisation of homecare, BAE job losses at Filton, housing developers & next year’s closure of the airfield, housing market, Ed Milliband’s speech to Labour party conference, travellers sites & threatened deportation of Zimbabwean City of Sanctuary speaker Khetiwe Mashavave with Bristol City Council leader and LibDem Councillor for Clifton Barbara Janke.
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Second hour: LibCon Department of Justice government cuts to Legal Aid in Bristol with solicitor Will Stone & adviser Chrys Kelson from the Avon & Bristol Law Centre. Monday’s blockade of Hinkley nuclear power station near Bridgwater with Ornella Sabin; former ISI chief Mehmood Ahmed Durrani claims the US is at war with Pakistan. Claims and counter-claims about who is responsible for attacking NATO convoys & other terrorist attacks; Occupation of Wall Street; Alex Jones & Webster Tarpley on the parallel dangers of a false flag attack in the United States ten years after 9/11.
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