What’s iPM?

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1. At 03:41 PM on 12 Oct 2007, Eddie Mair wrote:

   mmmm

2. At 03:43 PM on 12 Oct 2007, DI Wyman wrote:

   resting....resting....1....2......1......2......hee..hee

3. At 06:09 PM on 12 Oct 2007, barrie singleton wrote:

   Posts 1 and 2 suggest this is going to be fun.
   Were do those of us who feel there is enough fun and want some gravitas go to? Melvyn doesn't do interactive and Buerk is too terrifying.
   There is a terrible shortage of truly fundamental analysis of Cock-up Britain. We take all the institutions: prison, war, parliament, school etc
   as fundamental to life, when they are all aberrant. Having whinged, I now offer a suggestion: Each week get a language analyst and a psychologist (both non-party) into the studio; play clips of political utterences and lay bare the underlying truth.

4. At 12:59 PM on 13 Oct 2007, Ed Iglehart wrote:

   Barrie,

   I'm with you 100%, and also have had too much time to think. At least the wren hopping around at my feet isn't bothered about it all.

   Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi/Dorood/Peace
   Namaste -ed

   
   

5. At 03:41 PM on 13 Oct 2007, Big Sister wrote:

   What's 502, remind me, Eddie?

6. At 01:12 PM on 14 Oct 2007, Ed Iglehart wrote:

   I'm sort of with Barrie on this. The trouble is that once the
   conflagration is established beyond control, why not take the Nero option.

   My daughter-out-law had the presence of mind to fetch the camera.

   Now, who'll help me lay places for six and a half billion and where's that Nazarene....?

   xx
   ed

   It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
   -- Woody Allen
   

7. At 04:07 PM on 14 Oct 2007, Aperitif wrote:

   Dear me Barrie Singleton (3), you are grumpy, aren't you? there's plenty of seriousness as well as levity on the PM blog, and, indeed, the PM programme. Can't you enjoy the mix?

8. At 04:48 PM on 14 Oct 2007, Big Sister wrote:

   Rupert has swung the champagne bottle! The iPM Blog is launched!

   Oh, and if I were you, I'd go for the car, Rupert. Now, will it be an Alfa, Ferrari, or what? We should be told.

9. At 09:30 AM on 15 Oct 2007, Moz wrote:

   Sorry if I'm being thick, but when does iPM start? It's not listed as being on this Saturday.

10. At 09:53 AM on 15 Oct 2007, Rupert Allman wrote:

    Moz (9)
    The first programme is not until November 10th. We've started the blog early to give everyone enough time to work up various stories and the chance to throw suggestions and ideas our way. So no show for a while, but you will find more content coming your way in the days ahead as we update our random thoughts, the gallery and contributions to the blog. Hope that helps.

    Rupert

11. At 10:37 AM on 16 Oct 2007, Big Sister wrote:

    That must be a record - it took over two days for some of my posts to appear. I think a little WD40 may be required in the machinery, guys.

12. At 06:58 PM on 16 Oct 2007, anthony briginshaw wrote:

    In the 6 pm News on R4 today, why did Corrie Corfield use the pronunciation BOUGHT when she must surely have had before her the past tense for 'to bring', which is BROUGHT? Why did she also use the form BEGAN in the same bulletin, when I would have used BEGUN? Firstly, Corrie, I'm not getting at you, these variations are commonplace.

    There is a difference between them, BEGAN for BEGUN is new usage.

    BOUGHT for BROUGHT is different - it is simply a mistake, a blunder - indeed, a howler.

13. At 02:04 PM on 19 Oct 2007, cosmicronson wrote:

    I'm not really sure what this is all about. I tried to launch the radio player but my mac does not have real player and I refuse to install data mining software. I thought the iPlayer would be good but I can't use that either.

    Is it ok to comment if you run a mac..is it compatible?

14. At 08:46 AM on 24 Oct 2007, Richard Clauson wrote:

    Please remind me, what is the criteria for contributing to the iPM photos, whether by adding them to the iPM Flickr group or by emailing them to you direct?

    Thanks.

15. At 12:56 AM on 29 Oct 2007, kbo wrote:

    I'm rather excited about this experiment. Digg and Delicious (amongst others) have become very famous because of the democratic nature of their sites.
    
    
    One key component of these sites is the fact that popular and not so popular stories have equal prominence on their sites.
    
    
    My slight concern will be the hijack of this medium by the big media giants with 'planted' stories. The homogeneous nature of some of the news stories carried by the big networks (not exempting the BBC) is sometimes tired and tiring. I am sure the avid members of the proposed iPM community will be able sniff these out and therefore vote accordingly.
    
    
    I will hope that this will be a new avenue for budding bloggers and those with valid (be it less popular or well known) opinions get a hearing.
    
    
    WHAT I WANT TO SEE AND HEAR
    
    
    1. A range of valid and interesting opinions on wide range of stories.
    
    
    2. Stories presented in a polished way to reflect the high standards we are used to on the BBC.
    
    
    3. Make a story popular, ditch it, and move to the next story...Let us as a community, give the 'small' guys a chance to put their views across.
    
    

    I will be definitely be tunning in....

16. At 12:36 PM on 29 Oct 2007, Stewart M wrote:

    Well I've heard the trailer... And episode 1 has to be to do with blogs and Spam. How to prevent 502 errors :-)

17. At 08:57 AM on 30 Oct 2007, silver-fox wrote:

    Lovely iPM.

18. At 02:53 PM on 30 Oct 2007, Jennifer Tracey wrote:

    Big Sister - sorry you've had trouble posting - drop us an email if you have problems in future.

    anthony briginshaw - thanks for your comments, have passed on the PM team. They may have discussed this on the PM blog.

    cosmicronson - if you're unsure about this blog, read what's iPM?. do you mean you're having trouble playing the audio on this blog? Our audio tool SplashCast works fine on Macs so you shouldn't have any probs there - email us if you have. For iPlayer and other techy queries - try the BBC Internet blog - hope that helps.

19. At 04:26 PM on 30 Oct 2007, Chris McCOY wrote:

    There are many issues affecting people, other life, and Planet. There exist many unimposing 'solutions', and certain plans to support everyone cohesivelyand comprehensively in these respects, certainly in the UK and Ireland as minimums. The rate of change required, given probable environmental, social, and other changes, and given our very fragile societies, presently greatly exceeds the rate at which Governments, Government & Legal process, and Commercial Societies are changing, or even themselves capable of changing. They are self-supporting in the directions in which they have thus far evolved.

    If one wishes to introduce the avenues and capabilities that support the unimposing 'solutions' for everyone and society, in part independently but with the cooperation of all, and in the actually required time, then there is a real risk and likelihood that Government & Laws will not support such proposals. However, these proposals are the ones that are/may be actually required by Nature, rather than human beings, since Nature defines the rate and cosnequences of what happens, and not human beings.

    In this light then, it would be of interest for IPM to cover the topic of whether and/or how there ought to be provision for, allowance of, and support for, the bringing in of innovative, large-scale, cohesive, comprehensive, and independent solutions and provisions for the entire UK & Ireland's population (as a minimum) that may differ from Government policy in some ways, and that may pip the Government to the figurative post in terms of provision in the necessary timescales, including having the undesired risk of not being in line with some laws that are then current, and which may not be able to change in the necessary manner. There may be no wish (and in this case, there is none) to disregard laws or acceptable societal procedures, but if Government & Business (inc. Charity Law for e.g.) cannot support independent parties to do what is necessary (inc. outside of its prior-made and now-current laws and constitution), rather than what may be desired, to two not necessarily being the same, can and should options be made available, and opened up by Government, for alternative and more free and rapid possibilities that could breach some constitutional, charity, business, property, and other laws, but in a constructive and supportive (rather than subversive) spirit? There is a specific example in question, and many others possible. Are we being held back from doing what is necessary, for example, or can we be openly supported, even if the Economy and Society changes greatly as a result?

    These are the questions that I currently have for IPM.

    What might be people's opinions in this general regard, inc. MPs, Lawyers, etc?

    Many Thanks!

    Chris.
    

20. At 05:18 PM on 30 Oct 2007, Jerry Cornelius wrote:

    I think I'd be excited about this if I understood what the heck was going on. This is going to be a Radio 4 programme at 5.30 on Saturday's, right? And most of it's content will relate to the internetweb? And the programme will also be released as a podcast? With the listeners (if that's still the correct word to describe us) suggesting what should be included in the programme?

    Maye I'm still hung up on the probably-outmoded concept of a 'programme' and this is something else entirely. Or maybe it's that I don't have the patience to read all the explanations on this blog, but I'd be grateful if someone could let me know whether I'm on the right lines in para 1.

    Good luck with it, chaps, whatever it is!

21. At 06:53 PM on 30 Oct 2007, Slowman wrote:

    Hi

    It's great you are asking for ideas for programme content and stories that are not getting covered in the media, and yet are pressing issues. I have one that I hear almost nothing about anywhere in the media, and I listen to Radio4 a lot. The issue is Peak Oil. I won't write an essay about it here - if for some reason you don't know about this issue just type it into Google.

    It's one of the biggest issues we are going to face in the coming years. Nobody is talking about this in the mainstream media, and yet there are hundreds of books and thousands of people writing about and studying it.

    More important perhaps is the effort community groups are making to plan for this, in the complete absence of any kind of government policy. "Transition Towns" - http://transitionculture.org/ the website run by Rob Hopkins who started the movement, and http://www.transitiontowns.org/ will lead you into the story.

    If you want more pointers I am happy to give them but you can find oceans of information from those links.

    There are loads of videos on utube, Google and Yahoo video, plus films like The End of Suburbia http://www.endofsuburbia.com/ and The Power of Community http://www.powerofcommunity.org/

    There are many bleak predictions about Peak Oil and it has huge implications for all societies and countries. However there is a rapidly growing movement spanning nations now, with a positive vision of how to deal with this issue and come out of it with greatly improved resilient local communities, and many tangible answers to many of societies problems.

    I would love to hear this issue being covered and actively followed on the network - sooner or later it is going to bite anyway, and the more people start getting to grips with it, the better for all of us. As a public broadcaster, you have a strong obligation to spread the word.

    I hope the new iPM initiative is a great success, and wish you all the best

22. At 11:33 AM on 31 Oct 2007, Jennifer Tracey wrote:

    Big Sister - sorry you've had trouble posting - drop us an email if you have problems in future.

    anthony briginshaw - thanks for your comments, have passed on the PM team. They may have discussed this on the PM blog.

    cosmicronson - if you're unsure about this blog, read what's iPM?. do you mean you're having trouble playing the audio on this blog? Our audio tool SplashCast works fine on Macs so you shouldn't have any probs there - email us if you have. For iPlayer and other techy queries - try the BBC Internet blog - hope that helps.

23. At 03:07 PM on 31 Oct 2007, Sally Greenhill wrote:

    I would like to complain about the ridiculous system of changing the clocks at this time! I am a 'lark' (i.e. more wideawake in the mornings) and I have to sit in bed in the morning light till 7 am when it is OK to get up. It gets light at about 6.30 am, for heaven's sake, when you 'owls' are still snoring - and then we have to close the day down an hour earlier. I feel I am being shortchanged of daylight - and therefore my valuable vitamin D!

    I do agree with changing the clocks eventually - say around the third weekend of November - but only for the real winter, not the beautiful Autumn days we are enjoying at the moment. Then the clocks should revert to BST around early February, so that the whole dark period is limited to, say, 5/6 weeks either side of the Winter Solstice. Can I persuade anybody to agree with me - we could start a petition?

24. At 03:35 PM on 01 Nov 2007, Krakensak wrote:

    Forgive me for interupting these procedural musings with a suggestion for a news story but I would like to know about the accusation that the Met's defense "photoshopped" the picture of Jean Charles de Menezes to make their mistaken identification appear less culpable to the jury.

    The judge told the jury to concentrate on the events leading up to the shooting. The Met has been found guilty of breaching H&S laws. A generous observer might say they made a tragic but honest mistake.

    On the other hand if they tampered with evidence as alledged this is surely an attempt to pervert the course of justice and an intrinsically dishonest thing to do.

    When can we expect this trial to take place?

25. At 06:40 PM on 06 Nov 2007, michael harrison wrote:

    sounds like a fine idea so long as no money is spent on it! From my point of view at least. I like Radio 4 because its intelligent, the least biased media I know of and built by professionals. It would seem that allowing listeners to shape it in any way will essentially let in the chattering classes who have - an average intelligence, lots and lots of axe to grind (and probably a sleet of Daily Mail/Express readers) and they are not broadcasting professionals. It thus appears that iPM will have all the quality and appeal of the You and Yours phone in (which I listened to again today in order to remember that my brain is alive! {it lives Igor and so on}). If I need to interact with the public I can go to the pub. (I don't tend to as it hurts the afore mentioned living organ.)

    Thank you

    Message ends

26. At 12:12 PM on 09 Nov 2007, A. Rodriguez wrote:

    Is iPM going to have a signature tune?

    How about the original and best theme tune, better still, re-introduce it to the main PM show.

27. At 12:19 PM on 09 Nov 2007, A. Rodriguez wrote:

    PS, the name iPM isn't great. How about 'PM Plus' or simply extend the weekend edition seamlessly into the new programme as 'Saturday PM'?

28. At 12:57 PM on 09 Nov 2007, AlanLB wrote:

    Where do I find the RSS feed for this podcast? It isn't listed on the BBC Podcast webpage. Thanks in advance, AlanLB.

29. At 02:08 PM on 09 Nov 2007, Jennifer Tracey wrote:

    For those of you who just can't wait til tomorrow (that's you AlanLB!) when we put up our podcast widget - here's the feed subscription link

    http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ipm/rss.xml

    The podcast will be up as soon as we can add it after 6pm tomorrow.

30. At 11:35 PM on 09 Nov 2007, A Darroch wrote:

    With petrol prices serendipitously going through the roof, and congestion charges, airport taxes and invitations to make carbon offset contributions all putatively designed to encourage us to use public transport, I would like to see those perennially pontificating, finger-pointing, ex-Eton holier-than-thou eco warriors taking a West Coast train (change at Carlisle) from London to Glasgow as I did during half term. One of the children who actually managed to squeeze on to the dangerously overcrowded carriage at Carlisle remarked to his despairing mother (denied, like most of us, access to the seat she had booked): 'This reminds me of the trains in India.' To which a suffocating wag replied, 'At least in India you can sit on the roof!'

    My suggestion for a story: Commission one of these pampered Zak Goldsmith types to spend a week travelling 'standard' class on commuter trains at peak times, on late-night metropolitan buses and on London 'hopper' buses just as the schools are emptying. Cameron might then be in a position to develop a transport policy informed by the experiences of those who actually use these idealised alternatives to the maligned motor car.

31. At 03:57 PM on 10 Nov 2007, No Einstein wrote:

    Still can't quite work out how this 'IPM' thingummy works...

32. At 08:36 PM on 10 Nov 2007, Phil Wadey wrote:

    I'd like to see some coverage of the decision of teh magistrates court in Cowley to allow BMW to close a bridleway and then to charge teh British Horse Society and the Ramblers Association some £50,000 in costs for representing the local riders, walkers and cyclists who didn't want the bridleway closed. There are administrative processes for dealing with such objections that don't have large costs and don't go to court. Is it right that the council can choose sometimes to use teh cheap processes and sometimes to go to a venue that will put off members of the public from objecting?

33. At 09:46 PM on 10 Nov 2007, Paul Fynn wrote:

    Can I have twopenneth ?
    Right, what was Jacqui Smith thinking when she said that asking Ian Blair to resign would be a victory for Osama Bin Laden.
    I thought we'd seen the last of the hysterical Home Secretaries.

34. At 03:08 PM on 17 Nov 2007, dave jones wrote:

    I'd like to see some serious debate about how effective institutions like parliament, government, police, education, health etc are. the line of argument might take the following route:

    - what is the aim/ purpose?
    - how is progress towards meeting this aim/ purpose measured?
    - how do we the public know how well they are doing at meeting/progressing towards their aim/ purpose?
    - who is accountable if the body is not meeting its aim? eg the role of parliament is to ....., if it is not fulfilling its role - what can the public do to hold it too account? if nothing - then if there not a failure in the system of democracy?

    should be easy to fill a few 30 minute slots with these ideas?

35. At 05:45 PM on 17 Nov 2007, Kate Melville wrote:

    "If you go to the blog you'll be able to find..."

    I can't find anywhere on this website where to find the things you keep referring to in the programme - no links, no names, nothing...

    Perhaps you need to sort out your navigation?

36. At 06:12 PM on 17 Nov 2007, Rupert Allman wrote:

    Kate ( 35 ) You're right - we've been posting our show notes after the show - but from now on we'll put them up earlier. Thx.

37. At 06:01 PM on 10 Dec 2007, EA Peutherer wrote:

    Enjoy E Mair very much

38. At 07:35 PM on 10 Dec 2007, Anne Maria Rennie wrote:

    perhaps this is not where I was to place my post code, however I trust this will get to the correct page. EH45 9AL. love your program.

39. At 06:21 PM on 12 Dec 2007, Monica Darnbrough wrote:

    I feel that the news bulletins on BBC are deteriorating while the BBC still has fantastic international news information as is obvious when one listens to the World Service.

    I would like more international items in each news bulletin and a bit more follow through (international items are dropped so quickly (what were the effects of the earthquake in Guadeloupe recently? whereas stories like Madeleine Mcann are pursued for ever).

    News bulletins are becoming celebrity oriented - for example who is Britney Spears and why should a main news bulletin cover something about her? (yes I am a boring old f...!)

    Having just returned from Cambodia I have found myself listening to World Service in the night while my body clock returns to UK time. There are many items which deserve wide coverage on radio 4 in programmes like pm so that we have the chance to learn more about life around the world - the best exisitng source on 4 is from our own correspondent.

40. At 09:01 PM on 13 Dec 2007, Ruth Matthews wrote:

    Please could someone tell me how to access the feaure where you put in your postcode and it enables you to see how your house / street looked 40 years ago.(Mentioned on Radio 4 today) Thanks

41. At 10:20 AM on 18 Dec 2007, Peter Gray wrote:

    How is the internet bookshop praised by A S Byatt spelt - something like "ADOR"?

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