Taking Hull's pulse
Post categories: #5liveHull, Hull, Humberside, Octoberfest, Shelagh Fogarty, festival, finance
|17:31 UK time, Friday, 23 October 2009
We're almost two thirds of the way through the Octoberfest in Hull. It's been another day of fascinating stories on-air and lots of activity round our igloo in the centre of Hull. I spent most of the morning at the St Stephen's Shopping Centre in the city where Shelagh Fogarty was presenting the mid-morning programme.
We thought we'd take the pulse of the economy, talking to shoppers, retailers and small business-owners on the day it was widely predicted the recession would be officially over. Of course that's not what the figures ended up showing and, as we heard from some of Hull's unemployed and from someone recently made bankrupt, you could tell the scale of the economic problems many people are facing.
One of 5 live's key aims is to bring our audience different stories and different voices from around the UK - this was a great example of how we can actually do that.
But we've reflected many other aspects of life too - from films with Mayo and Kermode to the latest talking points in an area which is passionate about sport. And we've got lots more sporting discussion to come as Colin Murray presents tonight's 5 live sport from Hull as well as tomorrow's Fighting Talk (including a debut by Former Hull City legend Dean Windass). We'll finish with a crucial match at the KC Stadium as Hull City meet Portsmouth.
And in our city centre igloo we're preparing for Saturday - likely to be our busiest day. If you're anywhere near Hull, do come along and see us.
Adrian Van Klaveren is Controller of BBC Radio 5 live and 5 live Sports Extra
- Thanks to Richard Bacon for the photo of the 5 live igloo in Queen Victoria Square, Hull.
Comment number 1.
At 12:42 26th Oct 2009, Tempus Fugit wrote:Four days since posting and nothing here yet. Allow me to be contraversial - that usually attracts "interaction." Perhaps your regular "interactees" are steadily deserting since the closure of the more debate-0freindly messageboards? Then again, there is increasing disaffection with the BBC and its increasingly questionable impartiality - Dimbleby's one-sided performance as a supposed impartial chair on last weeks QT as but one example and the following as another, because it's funny how the BBC is all over this and similar:-
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8323638.stm
but, unlike every other media outlet, have suspiciously little to say about this and similar:-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html
What's wrong with telling people when what is supposed to be their government have taken them for a massive ride? The public has the right to know these things and the nations PUBLICLY-FUNDED PUBLIC SERVICE broadcaster should be at the front, not the back.
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Comment number 2.
At 15:30 26th Oct 2009, Tempus Fugit wrote:And why do you always go north? What? Don't we in the south-west exist? Or is our region too "hideously white" for you metropolitan elitist yoghurt-knitters? We all pay the licence fee, too, in case you hadn't noticed. Maybe the entire peninsular should withhold it for a year, just to remind you all we exist...?
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Comment number 3.
At 10:44 27th Oct 2009, Tempus Fugit wrote:They're not reporting this development too clearly, either:-
https://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23761212-blairs-think-tank-airbrushed-link-between-crime-and-immigrants.do
They're spin on the previously cited case is thus:-
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8326501.stm
I suggest we all switch to another news outlet, if we haven't already done so, since the BBC appears to have a problem with telling us clearly things we are entitled to know about.
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