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大象传媒 White Paper: Your Views

Radio 4's forum for audience comment. Listeners react to the long-awaited White Paper on the future of the 大象传媒, and David Baddiel on jokes about the Queen and her bodily functions.

This week the government released its long-anticipated white paper setting out its views on how the 大象传媒's charter should be reformed and implemented over the next eleven years. Listener discuss their questions and concerns with Roger Bolton and Colin Browne from the Voice of the Listener and Viewer - from how the 'distinctiveness' of the 大象传媒 will be measured to a welcome note from the government about on-air trails.

Comedian David Baddiel speaks to Roger Bolton about his unusual Radio 4 panel show Don't Make Me Laugh, in which comedians have to do just that - try not to make the audience and themselves laugh by talking about a host of different subjects. One subject in particular - the Queen's sex life - landed the programme in hot water. The timing of the programme on the Queen's 90th birthday caused a stir, but Feedback listeners question whether the subject is acceptable at any time.

And we couldn't begin a new series of Feedback without airing at least some of the multitude of views about The Archers' Rob and Helen storyline. After months of domestic abuse by her husband, and a storyline lauded by many for highlighting coercive control, Helen took matters into her own hands and stabbed Rob. Now she's facing trial and her son Henry is still living with his adoptive father. For some listeners this turn of events is a step too far and unrealistic - others are gripped.

Producer: Kate Dixon
A Whistledown production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.

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28 minutes

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Sun 15 May 2016 20:00

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  • Fri 13 May 2016 16:30
  • Sun 15 May 2016 20:00

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