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Subject:      Re: KERSHAW: HOW TO COMPLAIN, BE ACTIVE
From:         Ian Anderson <froots@froots.off.demon.co.uk>
Date:         2000/05/25
Message-ID:   <392D0C35.59BE6A81@froots.off.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups:   uk.music.folk 
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Further to the Andy Kershaw/ roots & world music on the radio campaign: the
question on everybody's emails has been who should they contact to register
complaints and encouragement as deserved. Here are some suggestions that
others have emailed in:

HEAVY COMPLAINTS and buckets of digital hyena offal to the man who did it: Andy
Parfitt at Radio 1 (sorry I confused him with a Status Quo member
yesterday - possibly!)
andy.parfitt@bbc.co.uk

COMPLAINTS in general to:

Jenny Abramsky (controller of network radio, ie Parfitt's boss)
jenny.abramsky@bbc.co.uk

Alan Yentob (controller of talent)
alan.yentob@bbc.co.uk

The Director General, Greg Dyke. At a guess he'd be
greg.dyke@bbc.co.uk

Feedback programme on Radio 4:  feedback@bbc.co.uk

(Realmail for all of these: BBC Radio, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
should get there.)

Write to the letters pages of the Guardian, the Independent and, oddly, the
Telegraph (who have always been supportive of Andy's BBC ideals). And Radio
Times, of course.

ENCOURAGEMENT:

Perhaps most useful of all might be to write nice letters to the controller
of Radio 2, Jim Moir, to suggest that Andy should be given a programme
there forthwith, at a sensible broadcast time.
jim.moir@bbc.co.uk

By all the usual age/ social class yardsticks, Andy's listener profile is
quite likely to be a good match with what Radio 2 consider their main
listener catchment, and the music he covers is a) hardly represented on
Radio 2 and b) more popular than some that is. N.B. Remember it's not Jim
Moir's fault - he needs to be made to feel like an ally and beneficiary of
all this.

Point of interest: Lucy Duran is starting a 26-week series on Radio 3 from
September, so with that and Late Junction, Radio 3 is already pretty well
covered and probably not a worthwhile target at this point.


--
Ian Anderson
f-Roots magazine
froots@froots.demon.co.uk
http://www.froots.demon.co.uk/
f-Roots Radio at http://wen.com/radio

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