The last time I looked, my licence fee paid grudgingly to the BBC for their broadcast efforts, included radio. This Sunday in the Daily Mail was an article about Sarah Kennedy a querulous old biddy, well past her sell by date who is inflicted on the listeners to BBC radio 2 each morning between 6 am and 7.30. Well I say each morning but in fact she seems to have as much time off with one ailment after another and endless holidays as she does working at her strenuous 1 ½ hour Monday to Friday programme each year. So from this you will gather that I am not a fan. No doubt there are those who are. But in this country of free speech it seems the BBC as well as monitoring the content of our programmes is now censoring any complaints or adverse remarks we make about them. Listeners have complained about Miss Kennedy’s talking over the music, seeming to have little clue about the music she plays, deliberately mispronouncing or slurring her words and making remarks such as ‘ I only saw the black pedestrian on the crossing in the dark because he opened his mouth.’ Pity she opened hers. I actually wrote to her programme asking if she could not take a moment to listen to one of the three news bulletins in her programme and learn how to pronounce relatively simple names like Osama (Bin Laden) which she pronounces Ozama. More recently you would have been forgiven for thinking that there were three contenders in the Zimbabwe elections as she totally mangled Morgan Changurai’s relatively simple name. Yet apparently those who dare to point out these glaring errors and Miss Kennedy’s unprofessional style have now been told that their comments will not be posted on the BBC forum. The reason is apparently that the complaints are always the same and it is therefore getting boring. Hm, strange that, if the complaints are always the same, indeed especially if they are, then surely you would do something about it to please your listening and paying public? After all, we the public ultimately decide who we want to see and hear in various forms of media. The BBC surely do not imagine they can foist whatever they want on us, and that they can ignore criticism given. In my opinion they take such a high handed view at their peril.