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Griffin to appear on question time

David Dimbleby | 28.09.2009 14:27 | Anti-racism

BNP to share a platform with govt minister on national tv.

Nick Griffin is going to appear on the BBC tv programme Question Time for the first time, alongside Jack Straw and other party politicos.

David Dimbleby

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date?

28.09.2009 14:38

do we know what date he will be appearing, and in which town/city?

antifascist


Date...

28.09.2009 14:59

In the Guardian it says it will be on the 22nd October in London.

( http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/27/straw-debate-bnp-griffin-question-time)

Alice


BECTU Union plans BNP Question Time demo

28.09.2009 15:06

Union plans BNP Question Time demo

The TV technicians' union has attacked the BBC's decision to invite BNP leader Nick Griffin on to Question Time and pledged to join a demonstration against the recording of the programme.

Bectu said it would support any of its members who refused to work on the programme, which will be transmitted on October 22.

General secretary Gerry Morrissey said: "We believe there should be no media coverage of the BNP and I have raised this issue with the director general, Mark Thompson.

"He said they have been invited on to the programme because they have won elections, but we strongly disagree.

"We will be arranging a demonstration and lobby outside the Question Time studios and we will be working with anti-fascist groups to ensure there is a significant turn out."

fred


15th ?

28.09.2009 15:14

It is being shown on the 22nd but it may be being recorded the previous week.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/3117500.stm
Future locations
24 September - Bournemouth (Liberal Democrat conference)
1 October - Brighton (Labour conference)
8 October - Manchester (Conservative conference)
15 October - London
22 October - Hull
29 October - Llandudno
Disclaimer: Please note this information is subject to change.

Join the Question Time audience
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/1858613.stm

Danny


Idiot

28.09.2009 15:49

They are hardly going to record a current affairs programme a week in advance, they must've changed the published dates. I've emailled BECTU for more details.

Danny


Horrible Right Wing BBC Agenda

28.09.2009 16:36

September 24, 2009

I am watching BBC Question Time, for the first time for many months. I am genuinely astonished at the right wing bias of the panel. That the two "non-party" panel members are Digby Jones and Fraser Nelson shows the determination of the BBC to cover the full spectrum of political opinion from very right to very very right.

That they could not find a single panel member who supports the release of al-Megrahi, or who was prepared to mention that he might well not be the Lockerbie bomber, rendered the whole first fifteen minutes of "debate" otiose

As previously mentioned, I was once invited to be a panelist on Question Time but was cancelled by the BBC at short notice. .The BBC more recently caused a storm by inviting the BNP on to Question Time. I have stood against the BNP in two parliamentary elections - one in Norwich, and one in the very heart of the BNP heartland in Blackburn. Combining both parliamentary elections, as a mere individual I gained just two votes less than the BNP.

Yet, according to the BBC, I am officially banned from politics programmes on the BBC because I have no evidence of popular support for my views, while according to the BBC, the BNP have to be invited because of the extent of the popular support for their views.

The truth is that there is no concept of too right wing at the BBC, while there is a concept of too radical. The one no go area is a questioning of the narrative of the War on Terror.

Fascists are within the pale; sceptics are not.

Craig Murray
- Homepage: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/09/horrible_right.html


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