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Entry: BBC Radio Four - A28968024
Author: Elentari - U202814

Hi all,

Flea Market rescue here. This is the original entry A2491274, it hasn't needed too much doing to it, but though I've always meant to I've never actually listened to Radio Four.

That means I'm going to need the help of you lovely people to tell me if any of this is wrong, outdated, or if there's anything glaring missing.

Hi Elentari - couple of typos/spellos I spotted... John Humphreys should be 'Humphrys' and in the last paragraph 'later' should be 'latter'.

I'd also query R4 being transmitted from the Droitwich transmitter. Even though I work in radio I'm not very up on these things, but I'd guess that Droitwich might broadcast the Long Wave frequency but for the various FM frequencies transmitters all over the country would have to be used, because FM radio signals don't travel that far.

Thanks, Number 6. I can't find anything on the BBC site about the transmitters, so I'll just take that out unless anyone comes along who knows. It's not particularly important.

Oh, and welcome back!

Anybody else?

I just had two points, very close together:

'In the 1990s the station came under criticism for 'dumbing down' the quality and intellectual value of their programming and for needlessly axing popular series such as Kaleidoscope and the satirical comedy show Weekending.'

Presumably the bosses felt there was a need to get rid of these programmes, so you can't really say 'needlessly'.

'Regulation of its news output has also come into question post-Hutton Report.'

Readers outside Britain might not know much about Hutton, so you perhaps need to add a line, half-sentence or footnote to explain a bit about it. You could link to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2003/david_kelly_inquiry/default.stm and http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/ rather than go into it in too much depth.

Apart from those, excellent as ever!

I can't answer any of your questions in the first post, but it looks fine to me.

No credit to me really, Skanky. It was in a pretty finished state in the FM. I just got rid of typos and added links, for the most part.

By the way, Skanky, it may interest you to know that there isn't an entry on cricket. I had to use the guide to cricketing terminology entry for my link.

*hint hint*

What about this entry A944417 ?

Yep, that one pretty much covers it

You've been using the h2g2 search facility, haven't you, Elentari?

You'd think I'd know better by now.

I'll just change that then,

>>You've been using the h2g2 search facility, haven't you,<<

So have I, but I clicked on 'Search the guide', then unticked the 'recommended guide entries' and the 'guide entries' and only left the 'edited Entries' ticked, that did the trick.

You know, I probably saw it but took the title to mean that it wasn't a general entry on cricket and didn't bother to check it.

Anyway, ready for PR, do you think?

Oh, yes, of course