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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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John Plunkett

Poems about the BBC: it's your chance to rhyme!

The good people of BBC Radio 4 has commissioned Wendy Cope to write a series of verses about the BBC and changing listener attitudes towards it. So it's time to get your rhyming dictionary out - now it's your turn.

Yes, we want your odes to the Big British Castle (copyright Adam and Joe). Love Chris Moyles? Hate 606? Got a thing about Steve Wright? Never go a day without listening to You and Yours? Or perhaps you think Radio 3 isn't what it used to be?

You might even want to go digital and talk about BBC 6Music's George Lamb, although I hesitate to suggest that. So I won't.

Here's my effort.

Brucey Bonus

Here is my embarrassing truth. I rather like Ken Bruce. It reminds me of being in Mull. With Ken things are never dull.

My favourite bit is Popmaster Which turns into a bit of a disaster When the contestants know less about music Than my mum.

That last bit's not a copout; it's clever. Anyway, here's another.

Vox populi, vox diaboli.

Listener texts and emails have no place on a serious BBC news programme; If I wanted to know what ordinary people thought I'd listen to Jon Gaunt On TalkSport.

But I don't.

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