The BBC has recently started buying foreign thrillers, most famously from Denmark, but also from France,Belgium (I joke not!) Norway and Sweden. All very watchable and so much better than the Beeb stuff which is either costume drama (popular but not my cupof tea) or preachy lefty pap about as thrilling as cold toast.
However, the Beeb's days are numbered in its present form, since the money from the licence can only go down. In m opinion most of its supporters are talking about something they remember rather than what we now have. But I would miss Radio 4. Radio 3, the classical music channel, they have ruined with chirpy, chatty rubbish in between the music, as if it were Housewives' Choice.My, how that reference dates me. I shall be talking of Workers' Playtime and Wilfred Pickles next.
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