Richard Courtice
@richardcourtice.bsky.social
Broadcast and Sound Engineering to earn a crust. Theatre and sailing to spend that crust. Find much of the world inexplicable.
I think this pairing of Neil Pearson with Lee Ingleby as Morse and Lewis works really well. Terrific cast all round. It's a shame only a couple were made. Decide for yourself on 4 Extra tomorrow and Sounds afterwards. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Morse - In the Shallows
An Oxford don dead in the river, a student out of his depth. Morse is on the case.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I think this pairing of Neil Pearson with Lee Ingleby as Morse and Lewis works really well. Terrific cast all round. It's a shame only a couple were made. Decide for yourself on 4 Extra tomorrow and Sounds afterwards. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
I'm guilty as charged 😁
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I'm guilty as charged 😁
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let’s all acknowledge that slopaganda is an excellent word for this sort of thing
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
let’s all acknowledge that slopaganda is an excellent word for this sort of thing
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To mark the day the government announced that our beloved @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social was to be made permanent, I treated myself to this bauble. ❤️
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
To mark the day the government announced that our beloved @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social was to be made permanent, I treated myself to this bauble. ❤️
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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I agree with @arusbridger.bsky.social about BBC governance. Although v hesitant about another rearrangement, the single corporate-style board is massively flawed, not least because there needs to be some distance for the governors/board members from editorial decisions
Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I agree with @arusbridger.bsky.social about BBC governance. Although v hesitant about another rearrangement, the single corporate-style board is massively flawed, not least because there needs to be some distance for the governors/board members from editorial decisions
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any rival media org celebrating the defenestration of tim davie should delete all its traitors content, just to prove how much they disapprove of the bbc
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
any rival media org celebrating the defenestration of tim davie should delete all its traitors content, just to prove how much they disapprove of the bbc
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Saying Brexit harms our economy is quite an abstract statement. Let me make it real.
Small Scale DAB in the UK works because we buy reasonably priced equipment from reasonably good quality suppliers, who are based in the EU. There isn't anyone in the UK who makes the equipment we need.
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Small Scale DAB in the UK works because we buy reasonably priced equipment from reasonably good quality suppliers, who are based in the EU. There isn't anyone in the UK who makes the equipment we need.
1/x
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Saying Brexit harms our economy is quite an abstract statement. Let me make it real.
Small Scale DAB in the UK works because we buy reasonably priced equipment from reasonably good quality suppliers, who are based in the EU. There isn't anyone in the UK who makes the equipment we need.
1/x
Small Scale DAB in the UK works because we buy reasonably priced equipment from reasonably good quality suppliers, who are based in the EU. There isn't anyone in the UK who makes the equipment we need.
1/x
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My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif
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This is beyond grotesque. Another young journalism who treats the lives of minorities as a game. I know plenty of people who still hang out with this guy – I can't respect that as a decision when he's publicly gloating about further stigmatising disabled people.
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is beyond grotesque. Another young journalism who treats the lives of minorities as a game. I know plenty of people who still hang out with this guy – I can't respect that as a decision when he's publicly gloating about further stigmatising disabled people.
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"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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Producer confession: sometimes, when you hear a show go out you think “yes, that was fine… but we could have added something”.
Tonight’s broadcast of The Abergele Files made me smile and be proud and happy to hear it again.
Tonight’s broadcast of The Abergele Files made me smile and be proud and happy to hear it again.
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Producer confession: sometimes, when you hear a show go out you think “yes, that was fine… but we could have added something”.
Tonight’s broadcast of The Abergele Files made me smile and be proud and happy to hear it again.
Tonight’s broadcast of The Abergele Files made me smile and be proud and happy to hear it again.
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For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
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it’s the time of year again!
once again it is time for the daily telegraph to run one opinion piece a day about how the national trust has been hijacked by woke extremists right up until the point their preferred candidates get shellacked in the vote and they go quiet for the next ten months before doing it all over again
Voting has opened for the National Trust's annual elections & members' resolutions. Deadline is 11:59 pm on Friday 25 October. As in past years, so-called 'Restore Trust' is running candidates, identified in the banner on their website. Quick-vote is a quick way to vote against RT, if so minded.
October 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
it’s the time of year again!
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We always try to get Nine Lessons shows beyond London - it is never profitable but we hope it makes it accessible for others - This year is CARDIFF - but no one seems to want to come - so we will pull it next week if we see that it is going to lose us too much money
www.glee.co.uk/performer/ni...
www.glee.co.uk/performer/ni...
Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People - The Glee Club
The iconic Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People season extravaganza is headed to Cardiff for the first time
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October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We always try to get Nine Lessons shows beyond London - it is never profitable but we hope it makes it accessible for others - This year is CARDIFF - but no one seems to want to come - so we will pull it next week if we see that it is going to lose us too much money
www.glee.co.uk/performer/ni...
www.glee.co.uk/performer/ni...
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Absolutely disgusting. BBC News - Ex-BBC editor stopped from flying due to Parkinson's felt 'humiliated'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ex-BBC editor stopped from flying due to Parkinson's felt 'humilated'
Mark Mardell was left feeling 'humiliated' after he was told he could not board a flight.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Absolutely disgusting. BBC News - Ex-BBC editor stopped from flying due to Parkinson's felt 'humiliated'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
il fait beau pour les canards youtu.be/gFeOa2vBZeI?...
Nice Weather for Ducks
YouTube video by Lemon Jelly - Topic
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October 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
il fait beau pour les canards youtu.be/gFeOa2vBZeI?...
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Forget about The Epstein Files just for for half an hour.
(Abergele is a town in north Wales)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(Abergele is a town in north Wales)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Abergele Files - Gong - BBC Sounds
The world's worst detective agency has come to north Wales. Relax, criminals.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Forget about The Epstein Files just for for half an hour.
(Abergele is a town in north Wales)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(Abergele is a town in north Wales)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, A place for ideas
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It's my last BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
My knowledge of football is limited, but I reckon Leeds are doing really well. #TheFootball
October 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
My knowledge of football is limited, but I reckon Leeds are doing really well. #TheFootball
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the 150th episode of NonCensored is out tomorrow (it's already on patreon) and it's a best-of, selected by our patreons, so if you've never heard it before, why not give this one a try?
podfollow.com/NonCensored
patreon.com/NonCensored
here's the sort of person you can expect to hear on it:
podfollow.com/NonCensored
patreon.com/NonCensored
here's the sort of person you can expect to hear on it:
October 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
the 150th episode of NonCensored is out tomorrow (it's already on patreon) and it's a best-of, selected by our patreons, so if you've never heard it before, why not give this one a try?
podfollow.com/NonCensored
patreon.com/NonCensored
here's the sort of person you can expect to hear on it:
podfollow.com/NonCensored
patreon.com/NonCensored
here's the sort of person you can expect to hear on it: