Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] at the precise stations where they did in fact go off, leading some participants in the exercise to be initially impressed that the drill extended to live BBC broadcasts of their ‘fictional’ disaster. (Although much has been made of this incident, it should be remembered that it was a ‘paper drill’, i.e. a crisis […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] public attention in any serious way. Our handling of it has been designed to discourage further fruitless argument.’6 Mrs Chalker spoke too soon. On 28 February 1989, BBC Newsnight screened a 30-minute TV report in which both Professor Spann and the prison nurse Abdallah Melaouhi told the reporter Olenka Frenkiel that they suspected the […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] heavy with Israel apologists, Standpoint is part of the Social Affairs Unit, itself an offshoot of the Institute for Economic Affairs. Bob’s chums The row over a BBC World Service item on Sir Bob Geldof and what allegedly happened to some of the money he raised at the time of the Ethiopia famine 25 […]