adrian monck

Tag: BBC

  • Let them hear cake…

    Jon Manel tackles ten years of the NHS on Today this week. He enlivened an interview with John Appleby from the King’s Fund by the use of a real BBC cake (‘how do you slice up the NHS cake?’), a simple visual gag ironically re-worked for radio. Unfortunately the fondant fancy of crassness collided with…

  • Licence fee fallout

    Something I wrote for Press Gazette: Ever seen the balloon dance? It goes like this. Unattractive naked man has three balloons that move from one extremity to the other to cover his embarrassment. BBC One is a bit like that. The balloons are news bulletins. What would happen if you popped them? Now the deal…

  • Panorama – quick reax

    Before you shed any tears for the BBC‘s Panorama, remember the old one wasn’t exactly fantastic. Under Mike Robinson no one in sport was safe, be it the Jockey Club or Sam Allardyce. We never saw the expose on drinking and darts players. I had to bale out of an engaging Dispatches to watch, and…

  • Panorama

    A BBC film featuring Taranissi and presented by Robert Winston aired on 18 December 2006. It was part of the series Whatever It Takes. Foreshortened BBC current affairs flagship Panorama is beginning its new mini-slot by going after British IVF millionaire Mohamed Taranissi, recently slated by UK regulators, the HFEA. I’m an IVF parent, and…