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 BBC 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 "Scrap the BBC" discussed the result.
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..
The stories we feature come from your suggestions. Let us know if you have an idea you think should be investigated.
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I too have no TV and get BBC radio for free, but when Radio 3 took off Mixing It, I had to look for another source for oddball & liminal musics. I found the American FM & web station wfmu.org - wide range of music, no commercials, all programmes archived (for years) to hear when you like. So how is it funded? By its listeners - they have just a couple of weeks a year of intensive fund-raising in which all the DJs are involved, contributions entirely voluntary. Not the sort of thing we're used to in the UK, but they got my donation.
Worth visiting the site to have America make you smile for a change!
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