Pod-prog notes: gate scandals and mapping in the time of cholera
This week's pod looks at
Gate scandals
Nick Baker got in touch with us about what to call the latest scandal, 'The Mendelson, Osborne, Rothschild, Oleg Deripaska saga? Aluminum Gate?'.
We ask long-standing journalist, Chris Moncrieff, why no political scandal worth mentioning has escaped having the suffix 'gate'. Chris began covering politics for The Press Association before Profumogate - and has a press bar in the Commons named after him to prove it.
Could John Snow have prevented the 1854 cholera outbreak if it happened today?
The Secretary of the John Snow Society took us on a tour of Broadwick Street and told us the story.
Professor of human geography, Danny Dorling, also briefly gave his views on the challenges of getting data for his social research.
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Keep Ross, because he's generally a terrific broadcaster, but fire Brand, he's an insult to the tradition of the BBC and its listeners, with no redeeming features.
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if someone made an obscene phone call to my private phone I would report it to the police. I think that it might be an offence in law. The possibility that one knows the perpetrator is not a mitigating factor. From what I have heard Mr Ross knows he did wrong and has some sense of right and wrong. Lots of people have apologised in court only to be found guilty of an offence carrying imprisonment as the penalty. Insincere apologies are not an apology. BBC is correct in following its own employment disciplinery procedure, as everything must be done properly to avoid providing a case for employment tribunal proceedings if the ultimate sanction is taken.
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Yeah.. I also think that Ross is a terrific broadcaster, but fire Brand, is an insult to the tradition of the BBC and its listeners, with no redeeming features at all.
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