Your Dispatches: February 2011 Archives
Tuesday February 8, 2011
Joie de vivre in BBC's Bush House
Susan Fraser of Coburg, Ontario heard Laura Lynch's essay on the Feb 3 program, and has her own memories of working at the BBC's World Service...
Read more »I listened with interest to Laura Lynch's essay regarding the BBC's World Service budget cuts.
While I don't have any specific memories of listening to the Service (having been born in Scotland and emigrating to Canada in 1971), her essay brought back fond memories of the two years I spent at Bush House, London.
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Tuesday February 8, 2011
Machine Gun Preacher vs. Shoe String Preacher
Matthew Morycinski of North Vancouver, B.C. heard Machine Gun Preacher on the Feb 3/6 program, and wrote...
Read more »Dear Mr. MacInnes-Rae,
I was somewhat startled, but very intrigued, to hear the story of the Machine Gun Preacher. He seems to fight a civil war of one, and I am not entirely against him doing it, as there seems to be no better solution. There really should be a prize for the heads of some of those warlords.
But here lies the trouble. If everyone were thinking this way everywhere, the world would be a slaughterhouse.
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Tuesday February 8, 2011
The World Service Lillibullero...the truth here
Peter Boyd of Oakville, Ontario knew the BBC World Service...
Many years ago in the dark ages before the internet I worked in many places like the Canadian Arctic, Saudi Arabia and Libya. The locations I was in were secluded and the only source of news was via short wave radio.
I still comment that back then when the cold war still ran warm I would listen to the "Voice of America" for their perspective, "Radio Moscow" for their perspective, then I would wait in anticipation for the strains of Lillibullero and the words "This is London".
I could count on the BBC World Service for the truth.
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Monday February 7, 2011
BBC World Service sold shortwaves in BC
Jack Dubberley, of Dubberley's Electronics in Vancouver, heard 
Laura Lynch's Feb 3 essay on the recent cutbacks to the BBC's World Service, and writes...
Read more »HI Rick, You asked about stories of "how BBC World Service affected you." Our family had a retail electronics store in downtown Vancouver for over 50 years called Dubberley's on Davie. One of our specialty products we sold were shortwave receivers. BBC was always the easiest station to bring in at most times of the day and the best example of sharing the romance of listing to radio.
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Monday February 7, 2011
God speaks to the Machine Gun Preacher
Jim Robertson of Calgary heard Dennis Porter's dispatch about Sam Childers, the Machine Gun Preacher on our February 3/6 program and had this to say.
Read more »A new and zealous Christian with a machine gun! - at least his heart's in the right place with his orphanage work. As an old and more reflective Christian, I found it was interesting to hear his Biblical rationale for his machine gun tactics. The Bible is among many books that are written from a religious perspective, ie. "God did this, God said that...". Men putting words in God's mouth in order to justify their own actions and motivations is a very old practice indeed. The scary part is when people like the M G Preacher interpret the Bible, particularly the Old Testament, literally. (continues...)
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- October 2011
- Mon., 17 – More on thorium, the "cleaner" nuclear fuel
- Thu., 6 – Your climate-change reports
- September 2011
- Mon., 12 – Asian carp threat: eat invasive species
- Thu., 8 – Listeners Remember Lamont Tilden
- Wed., 7 – Stamping out secret hate messages
- August 2011
- Tue., 16 – Uyghur Thriller Soundtrax
- July 2011
- Fri., 8 – Where an uncorrupt official is big news
- May 2011
- Wed., 25 – Radio's eyes, The Human Kind Of Eye
- Sun., 22 – A not so gay memory
- Sun., 22 – Notes on homophobia in Uganda
- Fri., 6 – Apologies...
- Fri., 6 – Response re: Zimbabwe
- Fri., 6 – Lessons about withstanding an earthquake
- Fri., 6 – Two takes on our coverage
- Fri., 6 – Barbie goes to Greece
- March 2011
- Tue., 22 – Listeners respond to Larry Joe
- Tue., 15 – Mendoza, Argentina...a witness to brutality
- Mon., 14 – Xinjiang, China...getting around here
- Fri., 11 – Plaza del Mayo... marching, remembering
- February 2011
- Tue., 8 – Joie de vivre in BBC's Bush House
- Mon., 7 – BBC World Service sold shortwaves in BC
- Mon., 7 – God speaks to the Machine Gun Preacher
- January 2011
- Thu., 20 – Haiti...just another death by cholera
- Fri., 7 – Hezbollah and temporary marriage
- December 2010
- Fri., 3 – Colombia's Kidnap Radio on the air
- November 2010
- Fri., 26 – Seoul... kimchi, an aid to weight control
- Tue., 23 – Kampala..The Secret Reach Of "The Family"
- Tue., 23 – Krakow...The Weather With You here
- Tue., 23 – Germany...neeles ant peens here
- Mon., 15 – Zimbabwe...Waiting For The Rain here
- Fri., 5 – China, Japan and rare earth in context
- Fri., 5 – Got your goat shopping done?
- Fri., 5 – From Burma to B.C.
- Mon., 1 – The case for Thorium power continued...
- Mon., 1 – Nicaragua...the remains of a DC-3 here
- October 2010
- Mon., 25 – NYC 9/11...What's Going On here?
- Fri., 22 – Clean cookstoves r you...
- Wed., 20 – Haiti...Rumours Of Glory here
- Mon., 18 – The Cuban diet...continued
- Fri., 15 – Falkland Islands...music of the long march
- Fri., 15 – Lusaka, SA...Tracy Chapman echoes here
- Fri., 15 – When in Cuba, eat as the Cubans eat
- Fri., 15 – India's secret war
- Tue., 12 – Khao Lak, Thailand...song from the Tsunami
- August 2010
- June 2010
- Wed., 16 – Listener dispatches....on the Middle East
- Mon., 7 – I'm a stranger here myself
- May 2010
- Mon., 17 – pop-up test
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