It's certainly worth an investigation into their accounts. There's a time and place for bean counters to come in and I definitely think public expenditure is one of them.
@@camrs125that’s why she was ranting. She lost her job because the BBC are forced to cut local radio services because of people not paying the license fee
@@terrywrigley9751really? The BBC protected Saville did they? Saville. Personal friend to King Charles. Saville. Spent several Xmas dinners at Chequers as guest of the Thatchers. Saville. A man nominated 4 times by Thatcher to be knighted. Yet royal protection,Special branch,MI5 and others,saying that maybe that was a step too far. Saville. A man handed the keys to Broadmoor. But sure. The BBC were protecting him!!! Hahahaha you people really are clueless aren’t you?
Has to say rant to grab attention, also beware those criticising the BBC because people like the Murdoch's would love to see the death of the BBC so they can have a Fox like grip over our politics like they do in America.
@@NICKBYN I hope you are nowhere near any position where you have the power to judge between 2 individuals. Because you don't seem to know the meaning of proof and evidence.
Never were there truer words spoken. Shame that the BBC has succumbed to political dictates rather than remaining true to its charter. Society, in general, is failing those who don't participate in social media - whether through lack of knowledge or interest.
Integrity? She had a hissy fit because her job was ended. Just another easily led simpleton who doesn’t bother to learn anything for himself,but let’s UA-camrs tell them what to think!!! Unbelievable
Integrity would have been to never have worked at the BBC in the first place. Big-state-BBC crowds out private investment, this is especially true at the local level where a private operation will have no hope of profitability for as long as there is a BBC alternative that doesn't need to financially justify its existance
Well done Sophie! If more people had the guts to speak out as you have, the BBC and the country as a whole, would not be in the state it's in. Thank you.
@@Stabby666 But of course I will Stabby! I am working class and I see no alternative. What other party is going to promise me the earth and give me absolutely nothing? In fact, less than nothing, as soaring inflation caused by my natural masters, means I am even poorer than before the financial crash of 2008. These people keep me in my place, as is the natural way of things. Heavens above man, if it wasn't for the likes of me, the status quo of 'master and servant' could not be maintained. Furthermore, my family and I really love swimming in shit when we go on holiday in our brilliant rip off country. 😉
@@CharlieMac53 I’ll admit that your use of multisyllabic words, punctuation and lack of spelling errors suggests you’re not the average gammon here. Well played 😁
@CharlieMac53 * I and friends are constantly trying to let people know what is going on in this country and the world, since we follow the truth. They are still in cloud cuckoo land and revert to calling us Conspiracy Theorists ! Do they not understand that we were correct about all that HAS happened and what is happening STILL - how stupid they really are.
Yes. I call that the work of scum. Everyone: Don't pay for their liscence, courts will never & and can not issue warrants despite Beeb bluff letters, not unless you physically signed a "Liability Order" to pay the Beeb annually, then the courts could step in, big-but, no TV owner has nor are they asked to sign a liability order... (which were officially ceased in 1993) ...by the BBC to pay them an annual fee. Don't give them a penny. Don't let ballifs in for it, they have no more right than I have to break in your house because I claimed you owed me a fiver. Don't sign a ballif's "Chattle of Goods" for not having a licence as it gives them access rights to grab whatever you sign away, simply never open the door or let anyone inside for Beeb liscence related issues, more paperwork bluffs will be the only outcome
I've got used to it over the years and completely gave up on them some years ago . They are left wing activists at the BBC , interested only in their extreme left ideology and their valuable platform that they us to spread their propaganda .Not everyone at the Beeb but still far too many of them and they have always been entitled and arrogant .
The cuts locally are so that the hosts of well known national programmes can be paid upwards of £300K per year, from Laura Kuenessberg to Gary Lineker. It's elitest, a tiny few who believe they know better and, as for the little guy, he can go swivel. They are desperate to water down or even not report stories. Because to have any hope of keeping the licence fee, they let the Tory or Labour person do the "explaining." Take the recent examples of ordinary people on strike. They are generally ridiculed, whilst the BBC reflects the government's position as "reasonable."
Good for her. Lady spoke the truth. At one time, local news were far less censored than national and international propaganda. The independents locals were also more able to speak out at least a bit. Now they all sing from the same hymn sheet and here is why: From Edwardian times the Rotten childs and a tiny few of their relatives got hold of the controlling shares of between a quarter to a third of some of the major news agencies. Thus they were able to dictate what the public were told, true or false. As they increased the number of media companies they owned the controlling shares of so they increased the amount of what the public were and were not allowed to hear. I have noticed that from circa 2010, they ALL seem to sing from the exact same hymn sheet, whereas before some were still sometimes diverging from the grand narrative. What happened in 2010? Well, we had a new PM and Chancellor of the Exchequer, both of whom are from banking families. No wonder all wars are bankers wars, and they were able to foment the two largest genocides in history with the world wars, and ensure that the US has constantly been at war for 80 years, plus other wars and supposed 'revolutions'. Thus, almost everything our grandparents, for some of us our gt grandparents, our parents, ourselves, our children and grandchildren have heard for over a century has been propaganda controlled by THEM. The same kh. az. aryan mafier for generation after generation. Only a tiny few exceptions remain independent, such as the online The Expose (a couple of months ago the Editor was put in hospital with an assignation attempt, after warnings. They haven't reported more. Not if he is still Editor, if he is recovered or even if he is alive. The staff of The Expose are under very real threat for telling the truth, with sources including information from the records of (mis)governments and other official sources, thus easily verifiable).
I love how the gutter press is calling this a "furious rant" when it wasn't really a rant at all, it was a very polite and concise summary of what is wrong with cutting local services. I wish this woman the best for the future and hope she and her team lands on their feet. The way she said "I have to remind myself that it's not their BBC, it's our BBC". She isn't the one who needs reminding, it's the managment above her. The ones who made the decision to censor her opinion. They clearly believe it is their BBC.
To the gutter press, anyone who even slightly steps out of line or sticks their head above the parapet is accused of going on a "bizarre" rant, or "having a meltdown", or are a "conspiracy theorist" etc etc. The mainstream media are not populated by human beings - I do not believe they actually have souls. Just drones.
That last sentence was the only thing I disagreed with, we may be forced to pay for it, but it's never been ours, it's always been theirs to do what they want with and protect who they want.
A great loss to BBC radio for sure. Sophie came over most dignified to me. I hope someone who holds a senior position in commercial radio hears what this delightful radio presenter has to say about the BBC’s ruthless cuts to local radio and offers her a deserving job in radio. The best of luck for the future Sophie if you happen to see this ❤
"Goes against the grain of all the training I've received over 15 years" is the key phrase for me. I've always wondered about the "lying by omission" that is pervasive in the BBC and now I know that they knock it out of them, the drive to tell the full story not the sanitised out of historical context version that meets the establishments requirements. Well done to her for giving us this insight!
Each new BBC head must be approved by the monarch and the PM. BBC donors include Bill Gates, USAID, NORAD and the EU. UK state broadcaster BBC is the propaganda-wing of the UK Establishment, war industry etc. Everything else is window-dressing to fool the easily-fooled, thoroughly brainwashed, UK majority. The state broadcaster should be funded by the state. This would end the big-lie the BBC is unbiased and impartial. It's obviously impossible for any state broadcaster to be unbiased and impartial. UK state broadcaster BBC has a shameful history of lies and deception on behalf of the ruling elites, war industry etc., including faking a video to get UK public and MP support to invade Syria in 2013. The compulsory BBC tv licence fee is criminal fraud i.e. demanding our money under false pretences. Demand an end to the fraudulent licence fee!
That certainly does not sound like a rant ... more a level-headed (& I would agree, absolutely right) opinion. She hits the nail squarely on the head - it is OUR BBC, those that pay the license fee & it is being dismantled by people that really do not have the faintest idea of what they are doing.
All our services including governments and the public and civil services throughout the West have illegally been incorporated into corporations under Dun & Bradstreet. This is why politicians and the media act against the people they are supposed to represent with truth and honesty. They are fully bought and paid for by the big corporate interests and now turned completely renegade.
Well done Sophie, well done for standing up. I often ask people what they will do to make society better for my son, and you have gone beyond what I expect. I am behind you
As a listener to radio norfolk ….. the cuts, to brilliant local shows, has been very, very upsetting, and terrible. It was what kept us going in Covid etc, and well done Sophie, she was spot on. I totally back her, and it took a lot of guts to do it, but it was just the truth …. Why should she be banned from it… shame on the bbc
Sophie Little... Never heard of her but she's my hero of the day. Brave, humanitarian and eloquent. I like this woman. On a more general note, I've been a fan of the principles behind the BBC all my life. I even argue with people in support of the license fee. That's why I've become increasingly alarmed at the way standards across the board have deteriorated badly over the past ten years or so. I've written to them several times about this issue, but never received a reply.
Good for her she sounds like someone I'd like to hear and see more of... Her integrity and strength gives me hope we can get back what was taken from us....
@monaghan5475 tHe GoVeRnMeNt. Because Capitalism privatizes everything and doesn't want nothing public. BBC is private because it has shareholders who tell them how to run their businesses, like morgan stanley. Whoever thinks this is a public company simply doesn't understand the economic system they live in
Because even governments are owned by private interests, let alone the BBC. Public services don't mean a dam thing anymore today. It's a long lost souvenir. We allowed them to disappear and we gave control to gigantic corporates which only have money and control at heart. Ain't billions of victims enough yet to make people open their eyes ? Or did we all just became suicidal, as a society and as a civilization? This smells like the end of times.
This is not a rant, it is a dignified truth telling. Pity there aren't more people at the BBC with this young woman. She has integrity, not a valuable characteristic at the BBC. The BBC should cut some of those ridiculous overpaid pigs feeding at the BBC trough.
The tories have spent 13 years removing from the BBC (and many other public services) anyone who won't push their flawed world view. Vote tory to destroy everything good about this country, it's all they are good at.
Whilst she had little to lose at this stage, I still applaud her for stating her case and saving the recording to post on Twitter (because she knew it might not be broadcast). As for the waste of money frittered away by the beeb on so many expensive items - how about cutting those expensive waste of time threatening letters to all and sundry, especially knowing that the cost of postage is increasing by so much in the very near future.
For those 'journalists' that dont have a basic level of understanding the English language.... Definition of a rant...speak or shout at length in an angry, impassioned way. Dont think this counts 🙄 She spoke
What she said was refreshing! At times, many times, i have been that person who needed to hear the friendly voice on the radio to keep going. Thankyou for speaking from your heart...i really felt it!
As many people have said: "This was not a rant." Sadly she dared to criticise the BBC and expose them. No one criticises the BBC. Not ever. You don't criticise them for being racist, sexist or ageist. If you do than the BBC has ways of dealing with you....
On thing you learn in life is that no organisation, be it university, institution, society or business ever forgets and rarely forgives...ever. Long after the crossee has long forgotten about 'the incident', they will still remember. It's just a point to remember the next time you ever feel compelled to get something off your chest or 'clear the air'.
That was an eloquent heartfelt monologue, NOT a 'rant'. And she wasn't on any 'gravy train'. She was clearly good at her job and providing a valuable service to the public.
I was not expecting much when I heard it was a BBC Radio Station - BUT BLOODY HELL! YOU GO SOPHIE LITTLE!!! So much respect for her... Not a single word she said was wrong!
It doesn't have to broadcast from a separate local studio. It can be done over the phone from home or social media channels, etc. I truly believe in what she said and agree that the BBC licence charge should be scrapped along with many of their woke views! The public are their clients but just like many other public owned services and our government, they seem to have completely forgotten that this is the case!
I don't watch tv or have a license, or have a tv, no need for it, and all the woke shit, man im way too intolerant of forced belief to want to watch any of that filth
I thought it was a long way from a "rant" she explained her views in a calm and considered manner and most of all her views are most likely held by many folk - hope Sophie finds a place where she can continue to speak frank and openly
I heard this on air and it was just a magical moment. It's so sad that Sophie and the rest have been culled and what she said was brilliant. It was a powerful and emotional moment. Respect to her for taking it to them on air, it was a brilliant statement of "what you gonna do, sack me?" and I wish more presenters would talk about this.
I listened to this show most weeks, I hope to be around for quite some time longer... Sophie gave a heartfelt and honest account of the importance of local radio not only for big shows with high;y paid people but this stuff that links local communities. Many many people enjoyed this show and my ex - at the time a 29 year old beat boxing tattoo artist really got into Treasure Quest!! She was brave, she has another job carving out a career with her own new eneterprise. Good on you Sophie! x
What is happening makes me so sad. Growing up as an only child in the 50s who spent holidays home alone, with no tv just the library. I had the home service and the light programme to keep me company and to learn from. Things haven't changed for the better since. Now I'm 78 living in Canada and my tablet is my wireless, but not everyone is that lucky. It sucks getting old and losing the familiar and comfortable things we enjoy. How does the modern BBC get away with their shenanigans? How the mighty have fallen. No longer worthy of pride thats for sure. Still sad. 😞
I thought it was a very calm and thoughtful, not something I would have thought that the BBC would have had a problem with. The fact that they did see the need to censor that part of her show suggests that the BBC want to cover it up. I agreed with all that she said and considered how much money is available to the BBC to produce programs that attempt to lie to us about the past history of the U.K. and what is happening to our country today. I also considered how much money they seemed to have to pay a few faces that the majority of this country seem to dislike.
Good to hear someone speak out. I'm sure other local radio presenters felt the same when they were dropped. BBC local radio is losing its way I'm afraid. Even their national radio is going to the dogs.
Sophie spoke from the heart so well done her. For the BBC to delete it speaks volumes and shows how low and despicable the BBC is. It obviously feels its charter irrelevant.
Congratulations to Sophie Little, it's a disgrace that more people don't use their platform to speak out and tell the truth. She rightly states what the BBC should stand for but as they no longer give a single sh1t about their audience, in other words they appear to be in breach of their charter, so maybe the minister responsible needs to consider this and decide whether the BBC should be allowed to carry as is?
The gender training is something they are required to do as a publicly funded service. It's happening in most government departments. It's also how senior managers gain points in their favour when they're looking for promotion or posts elsewhere. "I implemented and oversaw a comprehensive and inclusive programme to proactively promote awareness of diversity issues and gender identity stuff." looks very good on a CV.
By 3:35 I was on my knees bowing my head to her, so to speak. Much respect Ms. Little. With many thanks and in agreement. And I have not listened to the BBC (I would need to Internet to do so in this country) since the late 1990s early 2000s.
She hasn’t burned her bridges, she will get another job if she doesn’t have one already. I don’t think will ever forgive the BBC for what they have done to radio and TV.
I'm SICK of them - I listen to plays constantly on sounds (shite app) and am bored to the back teeth of being warned a 50 year old series 'represents opinions of the day' FFS
@@souralba2727not a clue. Just a lot of easily triggered people who get angry over something that has zero meaning in their lives. It’s all a bit odd. Meanwhile. Schools are falling to pieces. Record inequality. Record poverty. A failing economy. Yet the rich are getting richer. But but but THE BBC!!!! Hahahaha
I'm proud of Sophie. I listened to Treasure Quest most Sundays and shes got more passion and balls than anyone I know for doing the right thing. I wouldn't be surprised if this catapults her career forward and she absolutely deserves it. You just keep a troshin' Sophie
She wasn't bothered about the BBC lying..supporting of terrorists..I bet she said nothing about Jimmy Saville or the groomer rapists in Rotherham. Definitely a woke leftist only interested in her job.
This is my local radio station and i am one of the many who listen in as my window on my local area as well as the wider world news. I don't have a TV but have this station on all day everyday and what Sophie said was so true. I am lucky in that I am not house bound.but many older listeners are and these guys are perhaps the only voice they hear all day. Treasure quest was perhaps the programme that will be most missed as it allowed the audience to call in and interact with the treasure hunt each week . I now won't be tuning in on the weekend as nothing to listen to anymore just sport and I can hear that on any station. So good on you Sophie for standing up for those of us who will miss our local radio. Thanks for playing this.
Thank you John, and Thank you Sophie, I appreciate the BBC is a massive employer, However as a public service, It has to stop its woke activities and get back to being a public broadcaster, or it can become a private company they should not be funded by the British taxpayers.
Sophie Little, congratulations on doing a great justice to those who are over looked in our society, who you have correctly identified, I wish you well for the future, and I sure some company with high standards will be more than happy to have someone of your calibre on their staff team, Thank you so much.
Not only this with the BBC but in America, the license cancellations in AM radio is staggering. It is a world wide attempt to keep information from the public.I don't call that a rant but just a statement of the facts.
God bless her for speaking the truth,this country is at crisis point,so many jobs being lost,not enough in tax's to pay for our own people let alone economic illegal migrants,we need to vote Reform to get our country back on track.,
Many thanks for sharing this video with us Jon. I thought the presenter’s final comments were fair and calm. Censorship by the BBC was outrageous. Typical of this corporation!!! Take care 👍👍👍
Sad to see the demise of BBC local radio, as BBC Essex, the one I know about, is a great station. And Essex is a busy and cosmopolitan Shire county. The not for profit, social enterprise model for radio in distinct areas, already exists in this country and worldwide. The name you're looking for is community radio. Essex for example has more than it's fare share with Gateway, Phoenix, CCR, Colne, Caroline Comm and Funky SX. The excellent hospital broadcasters also provide excellent services.
This makes me so angry, I and others are forced to pay a Licence Fee to the BBC even though I certainly don't watch or listen to any of their broadcasts and yet they cancel Local Radio Stations that us Licence payers pay for and yet you never hear of any cutbacks made to their World Service be it TV or Radio whose listeners do not pay a penny towards the service, it's time now that this ridiculous Licence Fee is abolished.
No one is forced. If you don't watch the BBC or live channels, all you do is phone them up and tell them. You can still own a TV to watch other channels and also stream Netflix, Prime, UA-cam and play video games and so on. Their tactic is fear mongering, that's how they get the elderly to pay. I haven't paid for a licence since 2006, gave them a call, back then, had no issues since. 😊
World service is paid for in part by a government grant and by sales of programmes to other countries. I agree that the cuts being made are totally out of order.
If a business has more concern for it's customer base and honesty and integrity, knowing that those benefit the company long term, they wouldn't have a problem with Sophie's "dropping the mic" Unfortunately most big companies, like the BBC, don't care about honesty and integrity or their customers. I do hope Sophie is offered a similar role - that way that media outlet will gain more listeners as well as a hard working employee - a win win ps never heard of her, probably won't ever again but love honest people who put themselves on the line for the right reason.
I took part in a few documentaries. With most production companies it was a cameraman, sound recordist and producer filming at a house or in the corner of a pub. When I was filmed for the BBC, they had literally van loads of people and gear and hired out the top floor of the Tate Modern. No shots from or of the Modern. A total waste of manpower and money. It would probably have cost more for a two minutes segment than it did for the whole hour long documentary that the independents made.
Look at how they went after Radio Caroline, the BBC / establishment has always been about total control of what we see and hear. Local stations are dangerously 'local', and may go 'off message'.
I’m old enough to remember when Dave Lee Travis back in the early 90s did the same thing on radio 1 , locking himself in the studio and voicing his opinion on the BBC.
@@orwellboy1958 DLT not done for anything involving minors. However... "In 2014, Travis was found guilty of indecently assaulting a female researcher working on The Mrs Merton Show in 1995. He was sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for two years."
I'd like to lock the door of the studio and say what I think online about DLT, Blackburn, Saville and all the numerous other dodgy DJs at just about all our media outlets. Not to mention the gutter press, the Murdochs and even the bloody Maxwells.
I used to be an amateur DJ to an internet station in NJ USA and its true that people 'get used' to listening to regular voices (even mine) as it provides a sort of life line for some to the outside world!! Well said that lovely lady DJ Sophie Little.
Well said. I’m not from Norfolk or familiar with Sophie but LBC has some night time vacancies so hoping they’ll take some of talented voices like Sophie’s.
It's amazing to me what gets classified as a "rant" these days. Calmly expressing an opinion in opposition of the State has now evolved to be a "rant".
Locale radio is one of the few excuses they have left for getting the licence fee (and a piss poor one at that as it can as easily be funded commercially through advertising as anything else they do) .. the more they cut it the weaker their excuse becomes.
@@robtheplod not really any great mystery, it's just more trouble than it's worth to try and keep tabs on who would owe them a licence fee with all the small portable, handheld and smaller radios out there, and that along with stopping watching any live TV or iplayer as long as the licence still exists is how we'll defeat them over the TV licence and force them to go commercial (or go bankrupt) instead.
It's not a RANT - Thanks for sharing it, her message needs to get out there & be heard: but since when did someone calmly & gently pointing out a need and the BBC's reason for existence be considered a rant? That's ridiculous. However, what's not ridiculous is how petulant and pathetic is her erstwhile employer - to have censored her closing monologue, her thanks to her listeners, speaks volumes about the state of this once reputable & respected news organisation. Hope she finds a really good new job!
The general trend with everything it seems, is that 'the customer is no longer right'. That applies to everything I can think of from any form of 'authority' in Britain, & very much includes advertising & other things. Some of it is social engineering, some of it is outright corruption, incompetence, venality, apparently deliberate negligence & also contempt & arrogance. Much of it stems from a lack of authority, but other aspects from extreme authoritarianism.
This shouldn't be controversial and it was hardly a rant! The fact that it was censored speaks volumes about the BBC.
Big Brother Corporation cannot bear dissent.
It's certainly worth an investigation into their accounts. There's a time and place for bean counters to come in and I definitely think public expenditure is one of them.
It sounded like it came from the heart - that's probably why they didn't like it.
Don’t pay the tv tax and we can put them out of business…the bbc needs the bud light treatment..come on my British patriots..grow some and don’t pay
@@camrs125that’s why she was ranting. She lost her job because the BBC are forced to cut local radio services because of people not paying the license fee
They wouldn't need to cut it if they didn't pay people like Gary Lineker so much.
Well bbc excused saville for a very long time!
@@terrywrigley9751 oh yes indeedy euheuheuheuheuh how's about that then
@@terrywrigley9751really? The BBC protected Saville did they?
Saville. Personal friend to King Charles. Saville. Spent several Xmas dinners at Chequers as guest of the Thatchers. Saville. A man nominated 4 times by Thatcher to be knighted. Yet royal protection,Special branch,MI5 and others,saying that maybe that was a step too far. Saville. A man handed the keys to Broadmoor. But sure. The BBC were protecting him!!! Hahahaha you people really are clueless aren’t you?
@@soviet700" The BBC is good the BBC is great, I surrender my will as of this date!"
@@soviet700 So you’re telling us that makes it alright dose it
I didn’t think it was a rant. It was polite, honest and to the point.
Careful old "juglugs" will be listening, tbf he could hardly avoid listening, with those lugs!😵😵💫🥴
A rant? These people better look it up in the dictionary.
@@sprinter1832: You must mean the perennial Golden Lobes winner! 😅
Was it this Chilli bloke who branded it a rant ? He either has very poor English or he has an agenda to criticise anyone who has got the BBC sussed .
Has to say rant to grab attention, also beware those criticising the BBC because people like the Murdoch's would love to see the death of the BBC so they can have a Fox like grip over our politics like they do in America.
This is NOT rant, it’s a well articulated and thoughtful monologue.
Exactly!
It's more like waffling and accusations without evidence.
@@hakz795 may be you are hard of hearing ... in which case you're forgiven!!
@@NICKBYN
I hope you are nowhere near any position where you have the power to judge between 2 individuals. Because you don't seem to know the meaning of proof and evidence.
@@hakz795 projection, projection, projection... cease your gas lighting....
Sophie Little seems to have her heart in the right place, and a person of integrity. No wonder the BBC is getting rid of her.
Exactly, Ibet the ekite of the BBC haven't cut THEIR salaries at all.
Never were there truer words spoken.
Shame that the BBC has succumbed to political dictates rather than remaining true to its charter.
Society, in general, is failing those who don't participate in social media - whether through lack of knowledge or interest.
You said it.
She found some integrity when she lost her job!. Don’t let her fool you
@@markdavids2511 true that just like the tory giving seats up before the election.
A BBC presenter with integrity, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
Integrity found only when they were on their way out the door with nothing to lose.
integrety? i have my doubts,you think she would have said anything if it weren´t her last day on the job!?
Integrity? She had a hissy fit because her job was ended. Just another easily led simpleton who doesn’t bother to learn anything for himself,but let’s UA-camrs tell them what to think!!! Unbelievable
Integrity would have been to never have worked at the BBC in the first place.
Big-state-BBC crowds out private investment, this is especially true at the local level where a private operation will have no hope of profitability for as long as there is a BBC alternative that doesn't need to financially justify its existance
@@soviet700 You let the BBC and C4 tell you what to believe. 🤣
Typical BBC. Well said Sophie.
This wasn't a rant, this was a plea and she said it in such an eloquent way too. The BBC don't deserve her.
they don't deserve her👍
Is there an echo in here??!!??
Well done Sophie! If more people had the guts to speak out as you have, the BBC and the country as a whole, would not be in the state it's in. Thank you.
The govt is cutting BBC funding but I’m guessing you’ll still vote Tory, right?
@@Stabby666 But of course I will Stabby! I am working class and I see no alternative. What other party is going to promise me the earth and give me absolutely nothing? In fact, less than nothing, as soaring inflation caused by my natural masters, means I am even poorer than before the financial crash of 2008. These people keep me in my place, as is the natural way of things. Heavens above man, if it wasn't for the likes of me, the status quo of 'master and servant' could not be maintained. Furthermore, my family and I really love swimming in shit when we go on holiday in our brilliant rip off country. 😉
@@CharlieMac53 I’ll admit that your use of multisyllabic words, punctuation and lack of spelling errors suggests you’re not the average gammon here. Well played 😁
@CharlieMac53 *
I and friends are constantly trying to let people know what is going on in this country and the world, since we follow the truth. They are still in cloud cuckoo land and revert to calling us Conspiracy Theorists !
Do they not understand that we were correct about all that HAS happened and what is happening STILL - how stupid they really are.
@@Stabby666lol
Good for her. Not a rant. A concise presentation of facts impacting the lives of British citizens. I repeat. Good for her. We need more like her.
For the BBC to pull this, just shows how bad they are .
They probably would have left it in, if she had blamed it on Brexit.
Don’t listen to her it’s Fake News.
@@markhorton8578 Or sexism or white men or transphobes.
Yes. I call that the work of scum. Everyone: Don't pay for their liscence, courts will never & and can not issue warrants despite Beeb bluff letters, not unless you physically signed a "Liability Order" to pay the Beeb annually, then the courts could step in, big-but, no TV owner has nor are they asked to sign a liability order... (which were officially ceased in 1993) ...by the BBC to pay them an annual fee. Don't give them a penny. Don't let ballifs in for it, they have no more right than I have to break in your house because I claimed you owed me a fiver. Don't sign a ballif's "Chattle of Goods" for not having a licence as it gives them access rights to grab whatever you sign away, simply never open the door or let anyone inside for Beeb liscence related issues, more paperwork bluffs will be the only outcome
I've got used to it over the years and completely gave up on them some years ago . They are left wing activists at the BBC , interested only in their extreme left ideology and their valuable platform that they us to spread their propaganda .Not everyone at the Beeb but still far too many of them and they have always been entitled and arrogant .
She spoke honestly and fairly. Shame the bbc feel they have to censor this stuff.
Could be worst. BBC thinks ULEZ is not I public interest to report on.
BBC DEI > Representing ALL British people.
If you want to know what institutions fear -- just note what they censor.
The BBC obviously fears the Truth, told with logic and courtesy.
The cuts locally are so that the hosts of well known national programmes can be paid upwards of £300K per year, from Laura Kuenessberg to Gary Lineker. It's elitest, a tiny few who believe they know better and, as for the little guy, he can go swivel. They are desperate to water down or even not report stories. Because to have any hope of keeping the licence fee, they let the Tory or Labour person do the "explaining." Take the recent examples of ordinary people on strike. They are generally ridiculed, whilst the BBC reflects the government's position as "reasonable."
Good for her. Lady spoke the truth. At one time, local news were far less censored than national and international propaganda. The independents locals were also more able to speak out at least a bit. Now they all sing from the same hymn sheet and here is why:
From Edwardian times the Rotten childs and a tiny few of their relatives got hold of the controlling shares of between a quarter to a third of some of the major news agencies. Thus they were able to dictate what the public were told, true or false. As they increased the number of media companies they owned the controlling shares of so they increased the amount of what the public were and were not allowed to hear.
I have noticed that from circa 2010, they ALL seem to sing from the exact same hymn sheet, whereas before some were still sometimes diverging from the grand narrative. What happened in 2010? Well, we had a new PM and Chancellor of the Exchequer, both of whom are from banking families.
No wonder all wars are bankers wars, and they were able to foment the two largest genocides in history with the world wars, and ensure that the US has constantly been at war for 80 years, plus other wars and supposed 'revolutions'.
Thus, almost everything our grandparents, for some of us our gt grandparents, our parents, ourselves, our children and grandchildren have heard for over a century has been propaganda controlled by THEM. The same kh. az. aryan mafier for generation after generation.
Only a tiny few exceptions remain independent, such as the online The Expose (a couple of months ago the Editor was put in hospital with an assignation attempt, after warnings. They haven't reported more. Not if he is still Editor, if he is recovered or even if he is alive. The staff of The Expose are under very real threat for telling the truth, with sources including information from the records of (mis)governments and other official sources, thus easily verifiable).
I love how the gutter press is calling this a "furious rant" when it wasn't really a rant at all, it was a very polite and concise summary of what is wrong with cutting local services. I wish this woman the best for the future and hope she and her team lands on their feet. The way she said "I have to remind myself that it's not their BBC, it's our BBC". She isn't the one who needs reminding, it's the managment above her. The ones who made the decision to censor her opinion. They clearly believe it is their BBC.
To the gutter press, anyone who even slightly steps out of line or sticks their head above the parapet is accused of going on a "bizarre" rant, or "having a meltdown", or are a "conspiracy theorist" etc etc. The mainstream media are not populated by human beings - I do not believe they actually have souls. Just drones.
That last sentence was the only thing I disagreed with, we may be forced to pay for it, but it's never been ours, it's always been theirs to do what they want with and protect who they want.
I can only guess they didn't like the "all audiences bit " its centertist not leftist
@@errin-mp1zyit's certainly not ours now
well, what else do you expect from an institution that pushed the jab and dare anyone who tried to say in public? its not a vaccine,
A great loss to BBC radio for sure. Sophie came over most dignified to me. I hope someone who holds a senior position in commercial radio hears what this delightful radio presenter has to say about the BBC’s ruthless cuts to local radio and offers her a deserving job in radio. The best of luck for the future Sophie if you happen to see this ❤
"Goes against the grain of all the training I've received over 15 years" is the key phrase for me. I've always wondered about the "lying by omission" that is pervasive in the BBC and now I know that they knock it out of them, the drive to tell the full story not the sanitised out of historical context version that meets the establishments requirements. Well done to her for giving us this insight!
That bit jumps out loud and clear, doesn't it.
Each new BBC head must be approved by the monarch and the PM. BBC donors include Bill Gates, USAID, NORAD and the EU. UK state broadcaster BBC is the propaganda-wing of the UK Establishment, war industry etc. Everything else is window-dressing to fool the easily-fooled, thoroughly brainwashed, UK majority. The state broadcaster should be funded by the state. This would end the big-lie the BBC is unbiased and impartial. It's obviously impossible for any state broadcaster to be unbiased and impartial. UK state broadcaster BBC has a shameful history of lies and deception on behalf of the ruling elites, war industry etc., including faking a video to get UK public and MP support to invade Syria in 2013. The compulsory BBC tv licence fee is criminal fraud i.e. demanding our money under false pretences. Demand an end to the fraudulent licence fee!
The BBC is the voice of the establishment, the roots are very very deep, which is why Jimmy Savile was honoured by them for half a century.
Lets face it the money goes to the government and its a government broadcaster...not paid or watched since the Iraq war2003
Government propaganda service, everyting else is window dressing.@@rossmackay-williams4583
It wasn't even a rant. It was calmly stated and truthful.
@Lookup2Wakeup I remember that. Wasn't his more along the lines of "You can't do this to me! Don't you know who I am?"
That certainly does not sound like a rant ... more a level-headed (& I would agree, absolutely right) opinion. She hits the nail squarely on the head - it is OUR BBC, those that pay the license fee & it is being dismantled by people that really do not have the faintest idea of what they are doing.
All our services including governments and the public and civil services throughout the West have illegally been incorporated into corporations under Dun & Bradstreet. This is why politicians and the media act against the people they are supposed to represent with truth and honesty. They are fully bought and paid for by the big corporate interests and now turned completely renegade.
Integrity and the BBC.
Don't belong in the same sentence.
Can you name any broadcaster with integrity please?
Sadly - many years ago - it did - but not now...
BRITISH broadcasting corporation - just an explanation of what an oxymoron is.
Well done Sophie, well done for standing up. I often ask people what they will do to make society better for my son, and you have gone beyond what I expect. I am behind you
She didn't insult anyone . . . cared about her job and her audience. Nice lady
Well said Sophie, if that's not a good enough reason to cancel the licence then I don't know what is .
You DON'T need a license for radio.
I know, but it's what she said about the BBC and why they blocked it .
@@chrisplant7273 But the licence pays for BBC radio
@@chrisplant7273you don't need a TV Licence.
@@danimayb Sounds like a flawed funding model to me.
That was an incredibly polite rant.
As a listener to radio norfolk ….. the cuts, to brilliant local shows, has been very, very upsetting, and terrible. It was what kept us going in Covid etc, and well done Sophie, she was spot on. I totally back her, and it took a lot of guts to do it, but it was just the truth …. Why should she be banned from it… shame on the bbc
Sophie Little... Never heard of her but she's my hero of the day. Brave, humanitarian and eloquent. I like this woman. On a more general note, I've been a fan of the principles behind the BBC all my life. I even argue with people in support of the license fee. That's why I've become increasingly alarmed at the way standards across the board have deteriorated badly over the past ten years or so. I've written to them several times about this issue, but never received a reply.
There just a government run broadcaster to me and stopped paying the tax in 2003 for there reporting of the Iraq War
Good for her she sounds like someone I'd like to hear and see more of...
Her integrity and strength gives me hope we can get back what was taken from us....
How can the bbc act like a private company yet be classified as a public broadcasting company
Well, come 2027, they are just gonna be a 100% private company.
Because the Government has got the organisation gripped by the bollocks.
@monaghan5475 tHe GoVeRnMeNt. Because Capitalism privatizes everything and doesn't want nothing public. BBC is private because it has shareholders who tell them how to run their businesses, like morgan stanley. Whoever thinks this is a public company simply doesn't understand the economic system they live in
Because even governments are owned by private interests, let alone the BBC. Public services don't mean a dam thing anymore today. It's a long lost souvenir. We allowed them to disappear and we gave control to gigantic corporates which only have money and control at heart. Ain't billions of victims enough yet to make people open their eyes ? Or did we all just became suicidal, as a society and as a civilization? This smells like the end of times.
@monaghan5475 thank u for the
BBC presenter tells the truth! Should have been the real headline!!!
This is not a rant, it is a dignified truth telling. Pity there aren't more people at the BBC with this young woman. She has integrity, not a valuable characteristic at the BBC. The BBC should cut some of those ridiculous overpaid pigs feeding at the BBC trough.
The tories have spent 13 years removing from the BBC (and many other public services) anyone who won't push their flawed world view. Vote tory to destroy everything good about this country, it's all they are good at.
Well said Sophie!!. Finally some HONESTY!!.🙏👏👍
Whilst she had little to lose at this stage, I still applaud her for stating her case and saving the recording to post on Twitter (because she knew it might not be broadcast). As for the waste of money frittered away by the beeb on so many expensive items - how about cutting those expensive waste of time threatening letters to all and sundry, especially knowing that the cost of postage is increasing by so much in the very near future.
How do you expect us to light our bonfires 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Give this young lady a TV show as its so refreshing to see someone speak the truth and voice public opinion
Which channel should do so ??..BBC or ITV ??…..Take your pick.
She's a good girl.who has others at heart aswell.
Maybe so but why only after 15 years.
It wasn't a rant. She was being honest and open
For those 'journalists' that dont have a basic level of understanding the English language....
Definition of a rant...speak or shout at length in an angry, impassioned way.
Dont think this counts 🙄
She spoke
What she said was refreshing! At times, many times, i have been that person who needed to hear the friendly voice on the radio to keep going.
Thankyou for speaking from your heart...i really felt it!
As many people have said: "This was not a rant."
Sadly she dared to criticise the BBC and expose them.
No one criticises the BBC. Not ever. You don't criticise them for being racist, sexist or ageist.
If you do than the BBC has ways of dealing with you....
Agree they love there over payed lawyers who they hide behind 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😮😮😮
On thing you learn in life is that no organisation, be it university, institution, society or business ever forgets and rarely forgives...ever. Long after the crossee has long forgotten about 'the incident', they will still remember. It's just a point to remember the next time you ever feel compelled to get something off your chest or 'clear the air'.
@@Frank_Nemo ... 🤔However, sometimes you just have to do what you feel the need to do! ... To be able to live with some self respect! 👍
This young lady wasnt ranting. She was stating her case politely. She was right.
That was an eloquent heartfelt monologue, NOT a 'rant'. And she wasn't on any 'gravy train'. She was clearly good at her job and providing a valuable service to the public.
I was not expecting much when I heard it was a BBC Radio Station - BUT BLOODY HELL! YOU GO SOPHIE LITTLE!!! So much respect for her... Not a single word she said was wrong!
It doesn't have to broadcast from a separate local studio. It can be done over the phone from home or social media channels, etc.
I truly believe in what she said and agree that the BBC licence charge should be scrapped along with many of their woke views!
The public are their clients but just like many other public owned services and our government, they seem to have completely forgotten that this is the case!
I don't watch tv or have a license, or have a tv, no need for it, and all the woke shit, man im way too intolerant of forced belief to want to watch any of that filth
I thought it was a long way from a "rant" she explained her views in a calm and considered manner and most of all her views are most likely held by many folk - hope Sophie finds a place where she can continue to speak frank and openly
I really don’t see this as a rant, more a heartfelt plea for change. She has great integrity and I think the BBC were lucky to have her.
I heard this on air and it was just a magical moment. It's so sad that Sophie and the rest have been culled and what she said was brilliant. It was a powerful and emotional moment.
Respect to her for taking it to them on air, it was a brilliant statement of "what you gonna do, sack me?" and I wish more presenters would talk about this.
She was already sacked. But you voted for the Tories to cut BBC funding??? You voted for her to lose her job??? Are you people right in the head?
This isn’t a rant, this is empathy.
I listened to this show most weeks, I hope to be around for quite some time longer... Sophie gave a heartfelt and honest account of the importance of local radio not only for big shows with high;y paid people but this stuff that links local communities. Many many people enjoyed this show and my ex - at the time a 29 year old beat boxing tattoo artist really got into Treasure Quest!! She was brave, she has another job carving out a career with her own new eneterprise. Good on you Sophie! x
What is happening makes me so sad. Growing up as an only child in the 50s who spent holidays home alone, with no tv just the library. I had the home service and the light programme to keep me company and to learn from. Things haven't changed for the better since. Now I'm 78 living in Canada and my tablet is my wireless, but not everyone is that lucky. It sucks getting old and losing the familiar and comfortable things we enjoy. How does the modern BBC get away with their shenanigans? How the mighty have fallen. No longer worthy of pride thats for sure. Still sad. 😞
I thought it was a very calm and thoughtful, not something I would have thought that the BBC would have had a problem with. The fact that they did see the need to censor that part of her show suggests that the BBC want to cover it up.
I agreed with all that she said and considered how much money is available to the BBC to produce programs that attempt to lie to us about the past history of the U.K. and what is happening to our country today. I also considered how much money they seemed to have to pay a few faces that the majority of this country seem to dislike.
Good to hear someone speak out. I'm sure other local radio presenters felt the same when they were dropped. BBC local radio is losing its way I'm afraid. Even their national radio is going to the dogs.
Sophie spoke from the heart so well done her. For the BBC to delete it speaks volumes and shows how low and despicable the BBC is. It obviously feels its charter irrelevant.
When you get paid even if you do a shit job this is what you get
A BBC cover up? Really? Can't believe they would do such a thing.
Exactly, why would they, spineless, gutless , lying ,thieving as they are . They would ofcourse never lie .
A very honest point of view highlighting something else that is broken in this country!
Wow! I am always humbled by people performing acts of courage like this. Well done!
You on the wrong video? Or you talking about volunteers in Morocco trying to save lives?
She lost her job, diddums
@@joedennehy386 Doesn't matter, Dufus!
Congratulations to Sophie Little, it's a disgrace that more people don't use their platform to speak out and tell the truth. She rightly states what the BBC should stand for but as they no longer give a single sh1t about their audience, in other words they appear to be in breach of their charter, so maybe the minister responsible needs to consider this and decide whether the BBC should be allowed to carry as is?
Maybe if she had waved an EU flag.....
Well done Sophie
That is most heartfelt thing I have ever heard, I hope the BBC feel shame for this
The gender training is something they are required to do as a publicly funded service. It's happening in most government departments. It's also how senior managers gain points in their favour when they're looking for promotion or posts elsewhere. "I implemented and oversaw a comprehensive and inclusive programme to proactively promote awareness of diversity issues and gender identity stuff." looks very good on a CV.
Division, Exclusion and Inequity
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
👍🍻 oi vey!
@@richardwebb9532Absolutely
For those in this ever disintegrating money grabbing world this is what a human being sounds like Good on you girl ❤
Give that young lady a platform 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Fantastic speech hardly a rant. Thought she spoke from the heart.
By 3:35 I was on my knees bowing my head to her, so to speak. Much respect Ms. Little. With many thanks and in agreement. And I have not listened to the BBC (I would need to Internet to do so in this country) since the late 1990s early 2000s.
She hasn’t burned her bridges, she will get another job if she doesn’t have one already. I don’t think will ever forgive the BBC for what they have done to radio and TV.
I'm SICK of them - I listen to plays constantly on sounds (shite app) and am bored to the back teeth of being warned a 50 year old series 'represents opinions of the day' FFS
They get rid of this, yet BBC 5 still exists. 😠
@@progrockrulesyou do know you don’t have to listen to it??? But you do just to get triggered???? Are you quite right???
@@soviet700I'd presume from their comment they don't listen to radio 5 because they think it's shit.
@@souralba2727not a clue. Just a lot of easily triggered people who get angry over something that has zero meaning in their lives. It’s all a bit odd.
Meanwhile. Schools are falling to pieces. Record inequality. Record poverty. A failing economy. Yet the rich are getting richer. But but but THE BBC!!!! Hahahaha
Bbc needs to delete it self
I'm proud of Sophie. I listened to Treasure Quest most Sundays and shes got more passion and balls than anyone I know for doing the right thing.
I wouldn't be surprised if this catapults her career forward and she absolutely deserves it.
You just keep a troshin' Sophie
I hope it does.
She wasn't bothered about the BBC lying..supporting of terrorists..I bet she said nothing about Jimmy Saville or the groomer rapists in Rotherham. Definitely a woke leftist only interested in her job.
Well done for bringing this into the public domain. Also well said Sophie
This is my local radio station and i am one of the many who listen in as my window on my local area as well as the wider world news.
I don't have a TV but have this station on all day everyday and what Sophie said was so true.
I am lucky in that I am not house bound.but many older listeners are and these guys are perhaps the only voice they hear all day. Treasure quest was perhaps the programme that will be most missed as it allowed the audience to call in and interact with the treasure hunt each week .
I now won't be tuning in on the weekend as nothing to listen to anymore just sport and I can hear that on any station.
So good on you Sophie for standing up for those of us who will miss our local radio.
Thanks for playing this.
Well said, Sophie. Like others have said, most definitely not a rant but a very well presented statement from someone who clearly cares.
Thank you John, and Thank you Sophie, I appreciate the BBC is a massive employer, However as a public service, It has to stop its woke activities and get back to being a public broadcaster,
or it can become a private company they should not be funded by the British taxpayers.
Sophie Little, congratulations on doing a great justice to those who are over looked in our society, who you have correctly identified, I wish you well for the future, and I sure some company with high standards will be more than happy to have someone of your calibre on their staff team,
Thank you so much.
It’s appalling. Any slight criticism these days is labelled as ‘a rant.’ The presenter spoke in her normal, warm voice.
She is right, but forgot to mention how local charities, local groups, events public services etc., use the radio for announcements.
Not only this with the BBC but in America, the license cancellations in AM radio is staggering. It is a world wide attempt to keep information from the public.I don't call that a rant but just a statement of the facts.
Our ignorance is bliss-for the elite.....
This lady did not Rant. She gave a heartfelt and informed statement on the impact of these cuts and how they affect people.
My heart pumps lumpy custard for this gravy train surfer. Now she will have to join the rest.
Good for her for speaking out,they should be called the British Biased Corporation.😮
That was not a rant, it was a professional editorial. BBC didn't like it, but they'll be strong.
She was brave , honest, and clearly cares..thanks for highlighting it.
Rant, what rant, she spoke her mind, calmly and with relevant courtesy and respect! But then again it was against the narrative, wasn't it? Mmmmm!
God bless her for speaking the truth,this country is at crisis point,so many jobs being lost,not enough in tax's to pay for our own people let alone economic illegal migrants,we need to vote Reform to get our country back on track.,
WELL DONE FOR STANDING UP FOR YOURSELF
Not a rant. Just straightforward, honest speaking.
Many thanks for sharing this video with us Jon. I thought the presenter’s final comments were fair and calm. Censorship by the BBC was outrageous. Typical of this corporation!!! Take care 👍👍👍
Sad to see the demise of BBC local radio, as BBC Essex, the one I know about, is a great station. And Essex is a busy and cosmopolitan Shire county.
The not for profit, social enterprise model for radio in distinct areas, already exists in this country and worldwide. The name you're looking for is community radio.
Essex for example has more than it's fare share with Gateway, Phoenix, CCR, Colne, Caroline Comm and Funky SX. The excellent hospital broadcasters also provide excellent services.
Just get rid of everything BBC. Start new local radio stations.
This makes me so angry, I and others are forced to pay a Licence Fee to the BBC even though I certainly don't watch or listen to any of their broadcasts and yet they cancel Local Radio Stations that us Licence payers pay for and yet you never hear of any cutbacks made to their World Service be it TV or Radio whose listeners do not pay a penny towards the service, it's time now that this ridiculous Licence Fee is abolished.
No one is forced. If you don't watch the BBC or live channels, all you do is phone them up and tell them. You can still own a TV to watch other channels and also stream Netflix, Prime, UA-cam and play video games and so on. Their tactic is fear mongering, that's how they get the elderly to pay. I haven't paid for a licence since 2006, gave them a call, back then, had no issues since. 😊
You’re not forced to pay the license fee. That’s your choice. Clearly you choose to pay it. Then whine about it????
World service is paid for in part by a government grant and by sales of programmes to other countries. I agree that the cuts being made are totally out of order.
Wrong. You pay the licence fee because you want to, nobody forced you. You are free to choose. (I choose not to, so I certainly don't pay it)
@@geoffreycodnett6570I may be wrong, but I believe the World Service is paid for by the Foreign Office...
If a business has more concern for it's customer base and honesty and integrity, knowing that those benefit the company long term, they wouldn't have a problem with Sophie's "dropping the mic"
Unfortunately most big companies, like the BBC, don't care about honesty and integrity or their customers.
I do hope Sophie is offered a similar role - that way that media outlet will gain more listeners as well as a hard working employee - a win win
ps never heard of her, probably won't ever again but love honest people who put themselves on the line for the right reason.
Im not British but i love the work you are doing sir :)
🍻😁👍🇿🇦
I took part in a few documentaries. With most production companies it was a cameraman, sound recordist and producer filming at a house or in the corner of a pub. When I was filmed for the BBC, they had literally van loads of people and gear and hired out the top floor of the Tate Modern. No shots from or of the Modern. A total waste of manpower and money.
It would probably have cost more for a two minutes segment than it did for the whole hour long documentary that the independents made.
The waste and expense is galling.. i have done similar jobs
Their actions should come as no surprise. The modern day BBC is a million miles away from what it once was and should be wound up.
Look at how they went after Radio Caroline, the BBC / establishment has always been about total control of what we see and hear. Local stations are dangerously 'local', and may go 'off message'.
I’m old enough to remember when Dave Lee Travis back in the early 90s did the same thing on radio 1 , locking himself in the studio and voicing his opinion on the BBC.
DLT, the hairy cornflake. 😂
@Lookup2Wakeup no, he was accused, like Jim Davidson but they found no evidence.
@@orwellboy1958 DLT not done for anything involving minors. However...
"In 2014, Travis was found guilty of indecently assaulting a female researcher working on The Mrs Merton Show in 1995. He was sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for two years."
@Lookup2Wakeup He got done in a financial way. Unjust big cost he described to defending against it.
I'd like to lock the door of the studio and say what I think online about DLT, Blackburn, Saville and all the numerous other dodgy DJs at just about all our media outlets. Not to mention the gutter press, the Murdochs and even the bloody Maxwells.
I used to be an amateur DJ to an internet station in NJ USA and its true that people 'get used' to listening to regular voices (even mine) as it provides a sort of life line for some to the outside world!! Well said that lovely lady DJ Sophie Little.
We have loads of local radio stations....with real accents, real people and no political brainwashing.
Sadly we don't where I live. They were all taken over by ''Greatest Hits'' and had their soul stripped away. Made more corporate and repetitive.
Precisely
@@darkwoods1954 ie - greatest hits by black artists.
@@icdgyixifyinstereo Yes like most radio stations now that seem to have all become R 'n' B stations.
@@darkwoods1954 so that they cannot be accused of racism, which is just about the worst thing that you can say to the middle class.
Well said. I’m not from Norfolk or familiar with Sophie but LBC has some night time vacancies so hoping they’ll take some of talented voices like Sophie’s.
There is local commercial radio everywhere. Why doesn't the BBC shut down totally? It is now just an extortion racket.
It's amazing to me what gets classified as a "rant" these days. Calmly expressing an opinion in opposition of the State has now evolved to be a "rant".
Locale radio is one of the few excuses they have left for getting the licence fee (and a piss poor one at that as it can as easily be funded commercially through advertising as anything else they do) .. the more they cut it the weaker their excuse becomes.
It's odd isn't it that they scrapped the need to have a licence to listen to BBC radio..
@@robtheplod not really any great mystery, it's just more trouble than it's worth to try and keep tabs on who would owe them a licence fee with all the small portable, handheld and smaller radios out there, and that along with stopping watching any live TV or iplayer as long as the licence still exists is how we'll defeat them over the TV licence and force them to go commercial (or go bankrupt) instead.
Bravo Sophie Little, well said. Your comment was called a 'rant', it was not. On the contrary your comments were measured, balanced and appropriate.
We don’t watch any thing on the Brussels Broadcasting Corp because we haven’t got a tv tax licence,just watch streaming Netflix you tube etc 😋
Good luck to her. Hope her honesty is noted when she goes for a new job.
It's not a RANT - Thanks for sharing it, her message needs to get out there & be heard: but since when did someone calmly & gently pointing out a need and the BBC's reason for existence be considered a rant? That's ridiculous. However, what's not ridiculous is how petulant and pathetic is her erstwhile employer - to have censored her closing monologue, her thanks to her listeners, speaks volumes about the state of this once reputable & respected news organisation. Hope she finds a really good new job!
The general trend with everything it seems, is that 'the customer is no longer right'. That applies to everything I can think of from any form of 'authority' in Britain, & very much includes advertising & other things. Some of it is social engineering, some of it is outright corruption, incompetence, venality, apparently deliberate negligence & also contempt & arrogance. Much of it stems from a lack of authority, but other aspects from extreme authoritarianism.
That’s what socialism/communism gets you: a command economy.