“It was Michael Rosen who was blacklisted, and the man responsible was a Brigadier Michael Stonham [NO HIS NAME WAS 'RONNIE'] who was stationed in Broadcasting House as an in-house vetting officer on behalf of MI5 for the supposedly “independent” BBC.

The role of Brigadier Stonham was documented in an Observer expose published on 18th August 1985, which detailed the facts about the non-confirmation of Michael Rosen’s permanent contract [NO, IT WASN'T A 'PERMANENT' CONTRACT] following his blacklisting by Stonham. Rosen had previously been a trainee [NO, THAT'S WHAT I WAS AT THE TIME OF STONHAM'S INTERVENTION. IE A 'TRAINEE'] at the Beeb, had openly declared his marxist afflliations when recruited and had subsequently made pro marxist [THAT'S A LIE] and anti US documentaries [THAT'S A LIE]. ”

I MADE ONE RADIO DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE ILL-FATED LAST EXPEDITION BY GUEVARA SEEMINGLY INSPIRED BY REGIS DEBRAY. MY OWN ATTITUDE TO THIS EXPEDITION, TO DEBRAY AND TO GUEVARA AT THE TIME WAS THAT IT WAS MUDDLE-HEADED, POLITICALLY CRAZY AND DOOMED FROM THE START. MOST OF THE DOCUMENTARY CONSISTED OF READINGS FROM GUEVARA’S DIARY THAT IN EFFECT CONDEMNED HIS LACK OF PREPAREDNESS AND WRONG-HEADED APPROACH IN HIS OWN WORDS.

AS FOR ‘ANTI-AMERICAN’ APPROACH, THE DOCUMENTARY OF COURSE TOLD THE STORY OF HOW HE WAS KILLED WHICH INVOLVED CIA INTERVENTION.

I ALSO MADE SEVERAL DOCUMENTARIES FOR SCHOOLS TELEVISION. THESE WERE NO MORE THAN CUT AND PASTE JOBS USING ARCHIVE ALREADY OWNED BY THE BBC. ONE OF THESE WAS ABOUT CHEMICAL WARFARE. IN THE BBC ARCHIVE WAS A SHORT CLIP OF THE US ARMY USING LSD ON ONE OF ITS OWN SOLDIERS IN ORDER TO SEE WHAT THE EFFECT WOULD BE IF IT WAS ADMINISTERED TO ENEMIES. YOU SEE IN THE CLIP A MAN UNABLE TO COMPLETE AN ASSAULT COURSE. I INCLUDED THE CLIP. THE BBC RECEIVED A COMPLAINT FROM THE US EMBASSY. THE CLIP WAS REMOVED FROM THE DOCUMENTARY THE NEXT TIME IT WAS PUT OUT.

IF THIS IS WHAT JUDY MEANS BY ‘ANTI-AMERICAN’, SHE’S TALKING OUT OF HER TUKKHES. IT MAY HAVE BEEN MILDLY ANTI-MILITARY BUT NO MORE THAN THAT. I’M NOT ‘ANTI-AMERICAN’. HALF OF MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN.

I can’t believe I’m reading that the BBC is deliberately obfuscating. Why on Earth would they try to keep things like this secret unless they have something to hide?

The sickening thing is they have been given a green light to keep information out of the taxpayer’s view. That’s a little bit like a private company withholding financial data from its shareholders.

I don’t hate the BBC – they can be a force for good. But recently they have sunk far too far into their comfort zone, turning into a club of smug, liberal cheerleaders. There are quite a few people who work for the BBC that I still respect – I like Andrew Marr, and I have a huge amount of respect for their roving political journalist who turns up on Newsnight but whose name escapes me. I would count these as genuinely independent and good value.

I have a suspicion that before long the BBC will transform into something akin to the wet, liberal Channel 4 News. That will be a sad day for us all.

Monty Python turns forty!
Forty years ago today, on Oct. 5, 1969, the first episode of
Monty Python was broadcast on BBC2.

Murdoch’s grip on the British media knows no bounds