In my last post I was ragging on the New Jersey police for stopping a former domme from becoming a cop. I thought it only fair to balance that up with an organization that is a little less puritanical – the BBC. The journalist Nichi Hodgson spent some time working as a professional domme and is now employed as a journalist by the world’s biggest and oldest broadcasting organization. According to this recent article she actually made more money working as a domme than as a journalist, but I guess that’s what you get for working for a public service company.
In years gone by the BBC was famously straitlaced. Its nickname of ‘Auntie’ or ‘Auntie Beeb’ was derived from the idea of a prudish maiden Aunt who always knew what was best. Of course, for some people, a strict maiden Aunt who thinks she knows best, is a source of joy and pleasure. This is Juliana Granger in a shoot for Auntie’s House.
Miss Granger is a professional disciplinarian based in Sheffield UK.
And the lady damn well plays in fuzzy slippers too 😉
As for ‘Auntie Beeb’ … there was ‘Auntie’ ante Maggy T. – viceroy ‘Rupert the Uncalled for’ and all the right wing nutcase’s favourite punching bag – and now we have to make do with her sorry remains post Maggy T; struggling with austerity, viciously imposed over the past decades.
Tragically Alistair Cooke died. John Peel died. Many other beloved programs discontinued. Adding insult to injury, she even stopped broadcasting on 648 kHz MW; a particularly nasty one below the belt. Us fans and listeners all over Europe were abandoned, without giving it a second thought.
TANJ!
An MP3 stream out of a laptop is no alternative for the romance and the warmth of AM reception on the old valve receiver I grew up with and came of age with.
Sorry for veering off topic, paltego, but it still hurts.
John Peel and Alistair Cooke were national treasures. I grew up listening to Radio 2 and Radio 4 and I have a bunch of Cooke’s ‘Letters From America’ on CD which I played to when I first moved to the US.
Definitely miss the BBC here. BBC America and PBS are pale imitations of the original, even if the original is a pale imitation of its former self.
Never a problem with an off tangent veer! 🙂
-paltego
I make do with: http://bbcworldservice.radio.net/
Regards