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Listed below are comments made by racheinderbys between Friday, 19th September 2008 and Friday, 9th October 2009.

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Jack and Jill went up the....er...um... 1:00pm on 09 Oct 2009 Of course nursery rhymes are said and sung on a daily basis to children across the country. Is there any proper research which says they are decreasing in popularity? The people you interviewed seemed to be young adults, a long time away from their own childhoods but not(yet) having children themselves. Some of the traditional ones are still popular, some not. The Jack and Jill one, ending with violence (child abuse even) as it does, was never popular with me.

The historian chap is misguided if he thinks that we are going to chose the rhymes to sing to our babies on the basis of tenuous historical links about cannons. It is more to do with the rhythm, the tune and the pictures it will paint in the child's head. Also tunes with actions are popular.

Also some of the "traditional" ones are only Victorian - the rhymes which are popular change over the years and have their fashions just as all parts of our culture do.
Say hello, Wave... goodbye? 12:25pm on 09 Oct 2009 Thanks for the earworm!
Twice Ken is Plenty - the lost script of Kenneth Williams 1:11pm on 09 Sep 2009 Very sorry to have missed this - we were away on holiday. Please get it rebroadcast sometime soon!
What caused the Amazon firestorm? 5:44pm on 14 Apr 2009 You said:

"First of all, that it's a bit of a nightmare being an online retailer. If WH Smith or Waterstone's decided to put gay literature on more obscure shelves (remember - the books weren't banned, just made harder to find) would anyone have made a fuss - or even noticed?"

I couldn't disagree with you more here. This is not putting them on more obscure shelves, it is putting them behind the counter with the porn. It is not just books with gay themes but also those discussing sex and disability. It is not just fiction but also non-fiction. Not just books of no particular interest for children but books actually written for teenagers and children.
Also medical textbooks.

If any big chain (if they still exist, don't have any of them here in rural Derbyshire) filed all these behind the counter with the porn and only handed them out if you asked for them specifically by title and author I think there would, rightly, be complaints.
What caused the Amazon firestorm? 09:41am on 14 Apr 2009 Amazon.co.uk was affected. "Maurice" was unranked in at least one of its editions. The key was that all books tagged as "gay and lesbian" we unranked. So different editions of the same book were not affected if they were listed as "fiction" instead. The same happens to books on sexuality and disability - if listed under "sex" they are unranked, but under "disability" they are there.

It does matter if books are unranked. They do not turn up in searches (at least not on the first page) and remember this includes a lot of nonfiction and a lot of fiction for children and teens. These books are _far_ from "adult".

I lean more to the cock-up rather than the conspiracy theory, but the fact that it happened, and Amazon's (lack of) response are unfortunate to say the least.
Jade Goody's death 09:55am on 25 Mar 2009 @33 R4 has a very good obituaries programme, rather hidden away at 4pm on Friday afternoons: Last Word. But I agree the website could do with an equivalent.
The Glass Box for Tuesday. 6:06pm on 03 Feb 2009 I am a similar age to Carol Thatcher, and I remember clearly that golliwog was used in the 1970s as a term of abuse in a similar way to the p word. There was one black girl in my tiny school and I'm sure she became sick of the word. I haven't heard it used for about 20 years and would be aghast if any friend or acquaintance used it. At best, if Carol Thatcher is not aware of the connotations she is a poor journalist.
More Points of You: Part Two 10:13pm on 18 Jan 2009 I just get the message "This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later." Part One works fine - did you get censored?
Hugh was on Broadcasting House 1:48pm on 15 Dec 2008 Thanks, Hugh for the photos but especially for the report, which was one of the best things I have heard on the radio this year.
Food. 1:00pm on 19 Sep 2008 Re: Clare Wilkie's chicken and mushroom pie: it looks delicious, but in what possible way would it be of any use to the vegetarians in the family? I am a great one for "eating round the meat" when presented with e.g. a roast dinner, but I wouldn't fancy picking the mushroom out of a chicken and mushroom pie.

Also I notice the sweetcorn in the "before" picture has disappeared by the "after" photo, so they can't even eat that.

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