{"id":3994,"date":"2014-04-12T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T09:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2014-04-12T09:16:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T09:16:34","slug":"bbc-employs-greengrocers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3994","title":{"rendered":"BBC employs greengrocers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC – and Radio 4 in particular – is often criticised for being the voice of middle England speaking to itself.<\/p>\n

However, it seems that Auntie is now making great strides to improve the diversity of its staff, as shown by the Tweet below, which was posted during last night’s broadcast of Any Questions.<\/p>\n

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Q3: Would a Yes vote in the forthcoming Scottish Referendum be the only way in which England could get it's own parliament? #bbcaq<\/a><\/p>\n

— BBC Radio 4 (@BBCRadio4) April 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, Radio 4 is now employing greengrocers (shouldn’t that be greengrocer’s? Ed.<\/em> \ud83d\ude42 ), or at least people who know how to use superfluous (or greengrocers’) apostrophes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC – and Radio 4 in particular – is often criticised for being the voice of middle England speaking to itself. However, it seems that Auntie is now making great strides to improve the diversity of its staff, as shown by the Tweet below, which was posted during last night’s broadcast of Any Questions. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[16,22,33],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}