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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: After a general economics & budget roundup we hear actor and Equity member Sam West’s speech from Hyde Park anti-cuts rally last Saturday. David Cameron was acting like the school bully this week at Prime Minister’s questions, what kind of example is he setting the nation? And Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, whose wife runs a private healthcare lobbying firm, comes in for a pasting in a viral new ‘no to NHS privatisation’ rap song by MC Next Gen. We also hear more bad news from the stricken nuclear power complex at Fukushima in Japan, this time Dr. Chris Busby explains that neither people nor robots can get near the reactor cores now they have melted down.
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Second hour: Martin Summers and Billy Quain discuss the pros and cons of the Alternative Vote (AV) voting system which will be decided in a referendum in a month’s time. Merlin Emmanuel is the nephew of black singer/songwriter Smiley Culture and he brings us up to date on the fallout from Smiley’s death during a drugs raid by the Metropolitan Police explaining there is a facebook campaign for justice for Smiley Culture. Tim Hurford from local band The Transpersonals then joins us in a discussion about the music industry and subliminal messages in some of the hyped music videos. Then Robert Mitchell joins us as we explore the possibility that much of our politics and culture is being subverted by dark forces in the form of secret societies citing the works of John Robison and the Abbé Barreul.
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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: This week on Friday Drivetime Muriel Cole (Lib) & Ron Stone (Lab) review Bullingdon Club members David Cameron & George Osborne’s 2011 budget. On Saturday at the TUC’s London rally all but Ed Milliband will explain why Britain’s elitist bankers and the super-rich like Stephen Lansdown should take their money out of tax havens and put it on the table. We also review the week’s news and take another look at Bristol’s parks strategy.
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Second hour: Retired U.S. General Wesley-Clarke tells us the invasion of Libya was planned, along with invasions of four other countries including Iraq and Iran, way back in 2001. We take a close look at the proposed new voting system, Alternative Vote (AV), find out which elections it is presently used for, and how it works. Also… We hear that nearby Oldbury nuclear power station, operated by Magnox, had an accident a ‘mildly’ radioactive steam discharge and had to shut a reactor down last Friday. Meanwhile in Japan, safety procdures at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power station which led to way too many highly radioactive spent fuel rods accumulating dangerously, were ignored by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). How dangerous is flouride and should we be adding it to Bristol’s water? Then, with clandestine filming charity Animal Aid, we find out about the recently announced Welsh badger cull plus peer behind the high walls into the horrific world of the abbatoir and animal experimentaion labs. We discover that when it comes to animal welfare with the police and government there is no rule of law, that only the media and consumer pressure seem able to improve conditions for animals.
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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.

Smiley Culture: ‘Police Officer’ song, murder or suicide? 400 deaths in police custody in a decade. The families campaign for justice. Misdiagnoses at the BRI’s pathology unit. Are Serco and other multinational private companes and their ‘fat cat’ bosses making a killing on public money? Are they privatising public services on a massive scale? Is this what the Big Society is all about, privatisation in disguise? and criminalising squatters: with Sylvia Doubell (Lib) and Dave Morris (Con)
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Is public subsidy for nuclear power sustainable? Fukushima nuclear disaster, lessons for our two proposed nuclear new builds: Oldbury & Hinkley with Reg Illingworth and Lauren Tobia from SANE – plus Does the Koran predice this wave of Western intervention in the Middle East and North Africa? After intervention in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula and now the the Libya no fly zone… what is the bigger picture and will it all backfire? Muslim think tank Global Vision 2000
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