{"id":1773,"date":"2008-10-28T20:52:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T19:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2008-10-28T22:52:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:52:44","slug":"andrew-sachs-and-two-faces-of-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/10\/andrew-sachs-and-two-faces-of-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Sachs and two faces of the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">F<\/span>or anyone who is angry with the <strong>BBC<\/strong> for allowing two radio presenters to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1080621\/Russell-Brand-Jonathan-Ross-face-prosecution-obscene-air-phone-calls-Fawlty-Towers-actor-78.html\">bully and humiliate<\/a> an elderly man, 78-year old actor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Sachs\">Andrew Sachs<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00f671m\">listen to this programme<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Radio presenter Tim Samuels takes Sachs for a walk through London Zoo and hears about his childhood in Berlin, his Jewish father&#8217;s arrest, and the family&#8217;s escape to the UK in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>One programme is cruel, crude and funny in a self-debasing kind of way. The other is gentle, informative and moving, in an &#8216;improving&#8217; kind of way. <\/p>\n<p>Which of the two is worth preserving?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who is angry with the BBC for allowing two radio presenters to bully and humiliate an elderly man, 78-year old actor Andrew Sachs, listen to this programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1883,15,1717,1421,1882,1885,1884,1433],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-andrew-sachs","tag-bbc","tag-berlin","tag-jonathan-ross","tag-london-zoo","tag-russell-brand","tag-tim-samuels","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}