Steph's Sunday Shift: Treading the boards

Suggestions for other Sunday shifts? How about living for a week on the benefit level?



I think I am the first to post a suggestion on one of these Steph's Sunday Shifts sites, I just couldn't resist being negative any longer.

What a surprise they close the ‘Giving it some death’ post to comments. Sorry the links to the tweets I posted in comment #40 there showing the use of planted questions from friends of production staff during Bacon’s Help feature didn’t work, here they are again:



https://twitter.com/OurMateDave/status/30606299397885953



https://twitter.com/OurMateDave/status/30679852415713280

This should be made in to an official complaint. Blue Peter staff didn't get away with it and neither should Bacon.

This doesnt look good and undermines the editorial integrity of the BBC. Can't say I'm surprised. Everything is a joke on that programme. No-one is interested in the banal Help segment, this just proves it.



I wonder what other planted questions have been supplied for this and other less vacuous segments?



Can't trust anything we hear these days...

The OurMateDave guy who is a 5Live phone-a-friend to plant questions for the banal Bacon show describes himself as a "part time fiery liberal" and (https://twitter.com/OurMateDave/lists/memberships%29 follows @EC1ecoem/lefties and @LiamRhodes/libdems "Lovely Lib Dems. They're fluffy and cuddly too" and @EC1ecoem/cuts "Cuts Resistors".

I would just like to have it on record that nothing I proposed in the post on the othersite was in any way offensive. Just that I proposed an interview opportunity with the controller and he's run like a scared hare.

I have made an official complaint.

While it may only be a planted question about making a prawn madras it does raise questions about trust and editorial standards at 5 Live. How many other contributions are false? Can we trust that the texts, tweets and emails read out are real and not just made up by the production staff to try and balance a debate or stir up a response? How many other callers on 5 Live are mates of the production staff that they turn to when they are struggling to get contributors?

Exactly Dom. Someone needs to be censured and the listeners need to be apologised to. David Jordan, the Head of Editorial Policy needs to be made aware of this.

Following censure from Ofcom for several episodes involving radio and TV staff "winning" competitions etc. the BBC promised it wouldn't happen again and set up a compliance system - which has obviously failed again. As Dom says the triviality of the phone-in (naturally) doesn't affect the fact that listeners are being deceived and lied to.



I have made two complaints before when I felt the callers weren't quite what they seemed. Didn't hear a thing!

Well as I said on "Fancy a chat?", I made a complaint anyway. I am sick of the way the listeners themselves are trivialised by this little clique of presenters, who feel they are able to just make fun of the seriousness of actually being part of the BBC. They need to grow up a bit and approach their jobs with a smidge more maturity.



Tweets certainly give the game away.

I can't find that link Nigel.

I had never realised that Richard Bacon's programme had an editor. He should be taking a long hard look at his brief methinks.