Show Notes: Jobs, Football and Teleprinters
This week's show visited the seaside, looked at the world of work, learned about drifting and surviving downturns and traveled back in time to the days of the teleprinter. Links and further information for this week's programme below:
- What support is there for apprentices who lose their jobs before completing their training? Tipped-off by an email from Melissa Bassil about her husband's grandson Luke we investigated the issue, talking to Luke and to local apprentice training providers, Paragon Skills and Bournemouth and Poole College. Finally we spoke to Lord Young to find out what the government planned to do to help apprentices during the downturn.
- Many of your comments on the blog stressed the need to keep positive during recessions. Karen Hanton of Toptable offered some advice. We're still interested in hearing from you about your experiences of dealing with the stigma of unemployment, do email if you've something to add to that.
- The percussive poetry of the football classified check (as delivered by teleprinter) provided the excuse to head down memory lane in the company of Mark Lawrenson and the man who introduced the teleprinter to our screens - Sir Paul Fox
Finally, many of you were keen for us to do more on Thought for The Day. We've not ruled that out for later programmes and we have been discussing how we might return to the subject in a fresh and informative way that reflects the vigorous debate on the blog. Suggestions and thoughts on how we might do that and who we should talk to would be welcome.
If you've any views on this week's iPM please do leave a comment or send an email ipm-at-bbc.co.uk.
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I'm extremely disappointed that you didn't do the Thought for the Day issue justice on this week's show, again.
The iPM editor Ruper Allman apologised on your own site this week:
"On the criticism regarding how the issue was treated on the radio - we should have done more to address some of the specific arguments. We didn't and that was a mistake. Sorry."
He also said:
"We have been speaking to the main players in the debate to see if they will engage with the comments made here and on the programme. Calls have been made."
Can we assume the calls were not answered?
You ask for suggestions on how to cover this subject properly. The obvious answer is to ask Mr Damazer to defend his illogical statement, to face some of the questions raised in the blog and to expose Thought for the Day to rational journalistic scrutiny. What is he afraid of?
I can only assume you have been instructed from above to let this lie. I'm not sure I can bring myself to listen to your show any more as its claim to be 'interactive' is clearly bogus and the programme lacks integrity.
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It's a shame the structure of the first programme didn't recognise the need to achieve more. Anyway, apologies for errors have been made.
I have to say, iPM's total individual programme run-time, even if devoted in entirety to such a complex, heart-felt issue, probably wouldn't result in a truly balanced overview; yet alone, a resolution.
So, I'd guess that if there's a "next-time" (see below) for this particular subject, disappointment will still remain in some, if not all quarters.
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11. At 1:32pm on 18 Jan 2009, Piper wrote:
Interactive - Mr Damazer?
I doubt it.
This from today's "Independent":
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/is-radio-4-too-posh-mark-damazer-serves-up-his-recipe-for-change-1366158.html
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The saying used to be:
"Dover, for the Continent",
Bournmouth, for the incontinent".
I wonder, does that still apply..?
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