Bbc Radio Focus On Thailand

[brahmburgers]

starting on November 30, BBC radio http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

will air a special report within their 'Global Account'which will focus on THAILAND.

Judging from their pre-launch blurb, it sounds like the BBC program will be a 'bare knuckeled' no--holds-barred account. Certainly one that recent and current Thai gov't officials would like to censor (or ban) if they could.

[quiksilva]

Nice one, thanks for the heads up I will tune into this for sure!

Edit: i cant find the exact time on the link you gave that states when this will be on, do you know when this will be on?

Ok a little more searching tells me that this is their podcast series. Nice I'll be sure to grab this.

Edited November 28, 2007 by quiksilva

[Scott]

What exactly will this cover? I am not familiar with the program. Also, if it is censored, will there be a site on the internet where it can be heard?

[GuestHouse]

The program will be available over the internet live, as a listen again feature and as a podcast from the website the OP has posted.

If transmitted by BBC World Service the program will be transmitted from outside of Thailand - Standard BBC Policy not to transmit to countries from within their own boarders.

[astromash]

The program will be available over the internet live, as a listen again feature and as a podcast from the website the OP has posted.

I'd really like to listen to this. Can anyone provide a more precise link to a page on bbc.co.uk giving details? Thanks.

[JetsetBkk]

The program will be available over the internet live, as a listen again feature and as a podcast from the website the OP has posted.

I'd really like to listen to this. Can anyone provide a more precise link to a page on bbc.co.uk giving details? Thanks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedule...radio_fri.shtml

09:05 The Friday Documentary: Global Account

Angus Stickler reports from Thailand on an independence struggle which has cost more than 2,500 lives in the past three years.

Edited November 28, 2007 by JetsetBkk

[JimsKnight]

Sounds good, some hard talk about Thailand for a change

[astromash]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedule...radio_fri.shtml

09:05 The Friday Documentary: Global Account

Angus Stickler reports from Thailand on an independence struggle which has cost more than 2,500 lives in the past three years.

That will do nicely. Thanks.

[Chloe82]

So, for those who have listened to this, what are your thoughts?

[HS Mauberley]

Very, very poor. Extraordinarily one-sided and, apart from a very brief mention at the start, it was completely devoid of any background against which one could understand the current problems. There was very little reference to the extremely widespread human rights abuses by Thai security forces (unless I missed it, Tak Bai wasn’t even mentioned) and no exploration of the very long process by which the Thai state has sought to undermine the local culture and replace it with a Siamese/Buddhist one. It would be akin to making a programme on Palestine and making only a passing reference to the creation of Israel or trying to understand the IRA without exploring the long history of English interference/repression in Ireland. Shockingly bad. I’ve always thought the World Service to be very even handed. I was wrong.

[GuestHouse]

I think its quite a good report - The criticisms above regarding the depth of coverage are correct, but then I think the report addresses the international aspects of this conflict quite well. Not how did things get to where they are, but what's going on now and where might the conflict be going.

The report is a mere 24 minutes long, so its not going to address all sides and aspects of the conflict, but as the reporter correctly states, this is a conflict that most of the world know nothing about.

That of course could change.

[HS Mauberley]

^ In a sense, that’s true but, as you rightly say, very few people have anything like the background knowledge to understand the context. These listeners, who would constitute the overwhelming majority, would have finished that programme with a very skewed view of the conflict. If you only address a single side a complex situation like this, you provide a very warped perspective and I suspect that many listeners would be left with a (probably unconscious) belief that the responsibility for the conflict resided solely with a bunch of uppity ragheads. If you’re going to introduce a subject about which people know nothing you HAVE to give a balanced account. That goes without saying but unfortunately the opening few seconds set the tone for the whole piece: the call to prayer overlaid with the sound of explosions. This was propaganda, not reporting.

[seonai]

Very one sided