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["Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the link James, and interesting reading it makes, as well as 
providing a link to the theme which will be missed by some, in spite of 
detractors from all political directions.

The cultural diversity lot might like to reflect on this:

"Fritz Spiegl was born on January 27 1926 in Austria. In 1939 the family 
(Jewish/Catholic parents) left Vienna to escape the Nazis. His parents escaped 
to Bolivia while sending Fritz and his sister to England."

Is that diverse enough for you?  Well, maybe not, but given the bloke's sense 
of humour, I'd say he was having a very polite laugh on the British and 
'Britishness'.

Living in the West midlands as I do, I cannot be accused of knowing nothing of 
the world we actually live in.  I know a lot of the theorising that's gone into 
the diversity thing which has caught hold just about everywhere now.  What's 
happened in reality, and contentiously this is where there could be a link with 
disability issues, is that diversity has become, first and foremost, concerned 
with (cultural diversity) and not diversity generally.  Given that the cultural 
theme has the upper-hand at the moment, its no wonder that disability issues, 
such as access to subtitles, gets totally sidelined and diverted, shunted, into 
the ghetto of 'special needs'.

Oh well, I thought I'd try and get some relevance into this, no matter how 
tenuous.
Ray

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/uk_theme.shtml
:
: James
: ----- Original Message ----- 
: From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:16 AM
: Subject: [access-uk] Re: UK Radio 4 Theme
:
:
: >I have recordings of the UK Radio 4 Theme - somewhere.
: >
: > I'm afraid its very likely fallen pray to the diversity brigade and their
: > attitude problems.  Not that I ever took the Radio 4 Theme seriously, but
: > I
: > used to like it as a bit of fun, and to me, being not very musical, it
: > seemed
: > rather clever, even if it did seem to chime in with those histories of a
: > Britain that never really existed.  Still, no amount of reasoning will get
: > through to the boneheaded diversity establishment.
: > Ray
: >
: > Personal emails:  Email me at
: > mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
: >
: > ----- Original Message ----- 
: > From: "Frank Haslam" <frank.haslam1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
: >
: >
: > : Hi, Listers!
: > :
: > : I tuned in early this morning to hear the UK Radio 4 Theme and it's
: > gone.
: > :
: > : Where is it?
: > :
: > : Surely it must be on a web page somewhere!
: > :
: > : Help, please.
: 

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