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From a lonely drive made more
interesting by the dulcet tones of Jeremy Vine to a desire to find out the
headlines in English while abroad, the BBC seem to have all areas covered. After
a recent conversation with a friend, I discovered that I am rather a fan of the
BBC and the extent to which it surfaces in my daily life. Beyond praising
(rather patriotically- there were mentions of how America just cannot do the
same) this wonderful corporation, we managed to completely justify to ourselves
the £145 annual TV licence. I thought I’d share a few of those reasons with you…
The Choice of Radio. They
do it all. Want to hear some calm Sunday morning chit chat? Fancy a gentle
introduction into the history of the blues? Read a bestseller book recently?
Radio 2. Fancy putting on your pretentious hat and forming strong opinions on
Cameron’s Europe speech? Want to hear what records Nick Clegg will take to his
desert island with him? Need your Archers fix? Radio 4. Too young/cool for the
above? Radio 1.
News. I don’t
want anyone to burst my bubble. The BBC news website provides us with unbiased,
up-to-date, well written journalism. Forget the typos of the Daily Mail Online and
the ridiculous stories dug up by The Sun, the BBC gets to the point and you
feel like an educated person wrote the words that you are reading.
Sport? Not
something, if I’m honest, that I pay attention to on a daily basis, but people
tell me that they’re the website to seek.
David Attenborough.
Now this one is important. We came to the conclusion that without the BBC,
there would be no David Attenborough. From Life
on Earth in the 70s, the more recent Frozen
Planet to the current Africa, many
Britons would argue that the nature and wildlife genre on TV will cease to
exist when Attenborough retires. Which, considering he is still going at 84, he
never will.
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