From: BADGER@KLKLK.CO.UK   
      
   (curtain up)   
      
   The Scene: A large well furnished house in Bloomsbury. A dinner party of BBC   
   middle and higher management is in progress. Also present is an old   
   journalist who recently took redundancy.   
      
   Channel Controller: Mmm, these yams are really very tasty, Sarah.   
      
   News Editor: Thanks Tim; I got them from this little guy down by the station   
   near the Halal butchers. I always say that exotic food is one of the most   
   striking things about multicultural Britain.   
      
   Channel Controller: Yes; I'm reflecting that in the schedules: Billy Bragg's   
   making a ten part series about African fruit and its connection to musical   
   tradition in Monrovia.   
      
   Old Journalist, Recently Made Redundant: I would have thought the most   
   striking thing about multicultural Britain was people being blown to pieces   
   in the name of a medieval religion.   
      
   Young Irish Male Journalist: Tim, I bet you're sorry to see old Bill here   
   going?   
      
   Old Journalist: What a lovely smirk you have Declan; never noticed it   
   before. Oh no, tell a lie: I think i noticed it once when you feeding   
   leading questions to some poor bombed out Iraqi about 'Insurgents'.   
      
   YIJ (singing gaily): You say terrorist, I say insurgent!   
      
   OJ: You would.   
      
   Young Irish Female Journalist: Well I feel very sorry for the Muslim   
   community here. I think they've had a rough deal- like the Irish in the 70s.   
      
   OJ: You would.   
      
   Channel Contoller: I'm going to get Tom Paulin, actually, to reflect this   
   once he's got his new series for Radio 4 out the way.   
      
   YIFM: Oh Tom! Lovely! What's his new programme called?   
      
   Channel Controller: 'Great Racists of English Literature.'   
      
   Asian Journalist: Ah, well, that's seems rather sensible.   
      
   News Editor: One thing that's been bothering me actually, is the   
   predominance of males in the Iraqi insurgency.   
      
   Channel Controller: Got that covered too, Sarah: new series with Sandi   
   Toksvig interviewing members of Al Queda and Al Mahajerhoun about their   
   rather old fashioned values. She ticks them off for not being gender   
   inclusive enough.   
      
   YIFJ + YIJ: Sounds really good.   
      
   AJ: That's what I like about the BBC, so forward looking.   
      
   YIMJ: I hear Dimbleby is going to interview Osama Bin Laden?   
      
   C.C: Well he was, but he wanted £120,000 and the coypright. We always   
   preferred the idea of Mike Harding doing it, because I think you need to not   
   demonize the man. Harding was unavailable, so we've plumped for Barry   
   Norman.   
      
   AJ: Oh, I see, a White Middle Aged Man?   
      
   C.C: Sorry Aziz.   
      
   (pause)   
      
   OJ: Bombs were awful, weren't they?   
      
   All: yes.   
      
   (pause)   
      
   AJ: the shooting of that poor Brazilian guy was awful wasn't it?   
      
   All (except OJ): Yes, it was such a disgraceful moment! I mean it's a police   
   state! It was an execution! No respect for human life. It's Orwellian! I   
   think the family should sue. Outrageous! OUTRAGEOUS. BRITISH IMPERIALIST   
   ATTITUDE AT ITS WORST!!   
      
   (old journalist get up and pours a drink)   
      
   News Editor: You should get your liver tested, Bill. And give up meat.   
      
   OJ (to nobody in particular): That's what I like about the BBC, so forward   
   looking.   
      
   (curtain)   
      
   ROBBIE   
   --   
   Nick Garrett   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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