Show notes: The E-word, Pakistan, depression and tube maps

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1. At 01:16 AM on 11 Nov 2007, Ed Iglehart wrote:

   Just thought you might like to know:

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   The requested URL /podcasts/radio4/ipm/ipm_20071110-1812.mp3 was not found on this server.

   I enjoyed the prog so much I wanted to hear it again, but....

   The "immigration" debate is fraught with problems of racial/ethnic/etc. prejuduce, but an extremely important related matter is population, both local/regional/national and global.

   Pedrhaps framing a question on the basis of population without reference to migration (if at all feasible) might avoid some of the more touchy issues?

   In any event, this morning dawned upon 112,000 new mouths needing feeding, and that's after we've buried the dead.
   http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/pcwe

   Britain's ecological footprint is between ten and fifteen times the total land area of GB. How is that to be reconciled?

   four fifths of global resource consumption is for the benefit of one fifth of Earth's folk. How is that going to be reconciled?

   There will never be a shortage of problems, as each solution leads to at least one more, and usually more than one and more intractible.

   Happy times!
   ed

   It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
   -- Oxford University Press, Edpress News

2. At 12:47 PM on 11 Nov 2007, Andrew Baker wrote:

   I tried to post onto your blog some 2 hours prior to the radio broadcast and was unable to have the post recieved by you because of server errors.
   I repeated this attempt several times but to no avail.
   Is there really connectivity or is it appearance only?

3. At 01:32 PM on 11 Nov 2007, i-Piper wrote:

   
   An enjoyable first programme and corageous of iPM to take-on the subject that was, in it's totality, Enoch Powell

   I think, the piece, despite Sunder Katwala, went some way to de-bunk the Powell myth to a "modern" audience although... more below

   In any event, Dr Crippin (as matters concerning him presently stand) would i think be proud of iPM and, "he'll" also now, no doubt be hoping for a mention...

   I didn't feel the offerings put forward by Sunder Katwala (as broadcast - see below) were worthy

   Bias and lack of intelectual rigour - the antithesis of Powell himself - did not, I felt, make a worthy enough contribution to, or do justice to, the understanding of Powell or his contribution/attempted contribution to the future of the UK

   In any event perhaps "going where others have feared to tread" may become one of the signatures of iPM...

   Disappointment:

   I was prior to the programme and am still unable to listen to the full 12 mins Powell discussion using a land-line connection. An important negative given the importance of the subject matter

   The speech feed comes in 3 - 4 second sound bites only, with equally spaced "dead" periods in between. It appears there was/is a lack of buffering

   Also, I cannot download the iPM programme to iTunes, being informed the link does not exist

   No problems with other R4 progs using "RealPlayer" though...

4. At 02:54 PM on 11 Nov 2007, i-Piper wrote:

   ...Have just tried to download the iPM programme to itunes and, received this 'new" message:

   "Not Found

   The requested URL /podcasts/radio4/ipm/ipm_20071110-1812.mp3 was not found on this server."

5. At 03:32 PM on 11 Nov 2007, George South wrote:

   Sorry to all who have experienced problems with the podcast. We hope to have it up soon, but in the meantime you can 'listen again' to the program here:

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/ipm
   

6. At 04:49 PM on 11 Nov 2007, i-Piper wrote:

   
   Thanks for that George @ 05

   I guess it's age (too much in my case). I never thought of looking for iPM there... Oh dear

   George, do you have any solution for the problems experienced with listening to the full "Powell" discussion?

   When I refered in posting 03 to land-line, I should, of course, have said dial-up

7. At 05:43 PM on 11 Nov 2007, Ed Iglehart wrote:

   Sorry (1),

   That should be 212,000 new mouths to feed every day - a new million every five days!
   xx
   ed

   I went home with a waitress,
   The way I always do.
   How I was I to know?
   She was with the Russians too.

   I was gambling in Havana,
   I took a little risk.
   Send lawyers, guns, and money,
   Dad, get me out of this.
   -- Warren Zevon, "Lawyers, Guns and Money"
   

8. At 07:39 PM on 11 Nov 2007, Ed Iglehart wrote:

   Sorry (1),

   That should be 212,000 new mouths to feed every day - a new million every five days!
   xx
   ed

   I went home with a waitress,
   The way I always do.
   How I was I to know?
   She was with the Russians too.

   I was gambling in Havana,
   I took a little risk.
   Send lawyers, guns, and money,
   Dad, get me out of this.
   -- Warren Zevon, "Lawyers, Guns and Money"
   

9. At 02:39 PM on 12 Nov 2007, Natural Blonde wrote:

   I really enjoyed the favourite blogs/websites bit....I like Eddie was mightily relieved to discover the eminent academics can waste hours surfing!!

10. At 05:43 PM on 17 Nov 2007, C Brady wrote:

    At the top of the show I heard the comment 'are mobility scooters a menace to pedestrians'. I find this infuriating. I use one as considerately as possible, but find the public behave like idiots around them. They jump across the path, they step in the way, if they step backwards into my path they assume it's my fault, whereas if they step backwards into another pedestrian they think it's perfectly normal. The aggression I have faced needlessly is ridiculous and hysterical.

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