Programme notes: The future of ideas, ideas about the future
TV, it's been bringing us the future for years but in the future how are we going to pay for it? Listener Pete Landells said, "'Most TV isn't worth wasting time on but I would happily pay my licence fee just for those parts of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio output I enjoy."
Prompted by him we asked what license fee you'd be prepared to pay: £143 pounds on average. Richard D North the author of
And thanks to a listener email, we discovered that the new idea that won the government's Show Us A Better Way competition, wasn't all that new at all. Which lead to a discussion of how hard it is to come up with a genuinely new idea..
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