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Name: Ken Durkin on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: David Melkevik on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Jonathan Waley on Jul 21, 2011Comments: The short-story genre is one that should be nourished by the BBC, rather than overlooked. It offers the audience an opportunity to enjoy fiction that is fairly brief, and enjoyable in its entirety. This is in contrast to the endless stream of abbreviated novels. Jonathan WaleyFlag
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Name: Rodney Barker on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Andy Coyle on Jul 21, 2011Comments: Never been published and if this happens then it is one less avenue for non published writers to go down.Flag
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Name: Mrs. Heather Harris on Jul 21, 2011Comments: A short story can be enlightening and thought-provoking; it can take the listener to 'other worlds' or expand on the very 'real world'. It is of a manageable size, leading to the potential of a variety of listeners, one-off listerners or those who make a regular date with such a popular programme. To lessened its input would surely be a negative move.Flag
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Name: Ruth Joseph on Jul 21, 2011Comments: What a sad day when the short story events are restricted .So many listeneres will be deprived of their listening pleasure and this wonderful medium also gives an opportunity for the writers to air their work. a sad day indeed if this is allowed to happenFlag
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Name: Jacki Evans on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Mark O. Goodwin on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Kate Reid on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Seamus Casey on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Barbara Hudson on Jul 21, 2011Comments: One of the most enjoyable types of programme. (I am less likely to listen to serialised stories because I might miss an instalment).Flag
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Name: Pat Stevens on Jul 21, 2011Comments: I am a member of the Reading Writers Group and have for several years been writing short stories. I have recently had one published. I have enjoyed listening to short stories on Radio 4 for many many years and am devastated to hear that there is a proposal to reduce their number. The short stories on Radio 4 have been an inspiration to me and many others. I implore you to reverse the decision to reduce their number.Flag
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Name: Andy Seed on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Frances Farrer on Jul 21, 2011Comments: Radio 4 has a place unique in the world in supporting national cultural enterprise, in encouraging new writers, in maintaining the tradition of British storytelling. It is inconceivable that the BBC would reduce the effort that sustains this still further.Flag
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Name: Peter Kenny on Jul 21, 2011Comments: Hi as a prolific reader of Audiobooks I would ask you to reconsider this decision. Writing is the lifeblood of our industry and Short stories are often the first steps towards a succesful writing career. As a performer they are often a wonderful opportunity to stretch oneself into areas of performance that may not ordinarily come your way, and a fantastic training ground for younger actors. Everyone loves to be told stories, please don't deprive the listening public of this special and important chance to listen.Flag
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Name: Canan Marasligil on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Kate Clarke on Jul 21, 2011Comments: I support the petition wholeheartedly.Flag
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Name: Eliza Ivison (McVikka) on Jul 21, 2011Comments: Just when I was considering a short story outlet! Extremely disappointed.Flag
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Name: Linda M James on Jul 21, 2011Comments: As a writer and writing tutor I was stunned to hear that the BBC has cut yet another writing outlet of a much-loved genre. I find this deeply ironic as in my book “How To Write And Sell Great Short Stories” [ being published in December], I have praised the BBC for its commitment to supporting the short story. There are thousands of people who love listening to short stories on the radio so why cut such a stimulating and cheap form of broadcasting? Just look at the support this petition is receiving? If the BBC is supposed to reflect the interest of its listeners, surely there is an urgent need for them to reconsider a decision that will leave a large literary hole in so many people’s lives? Please reverse this decision and make a great many people happy!Flag
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Name: Elizabeth Pleydell-Bouverie on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Jill Hall on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Mansel David on Jul 21, 2011Comments: What is the point of the BBC if it isn't for this sort of service? I mean, really!!!Flag
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Name: Daniel Nwagu on Jul 21, 2011Comments: This cut is a life wire cut and it's best avoiding disaster at all cost before it occuresFlag
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Name: Marie-Louise Avery on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Barbara Burman on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Julie Peakman on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Jennifer Boncey on Jul 21, 2011Comments: The short story can be a powerful tool of communication. What better forum to find and broadcast talented writers than the BBC? Change the format if you have to - perhaps even a little shorter.....but let's hear them everyday. Once a week suggests imminent obsolescence.Flag
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Name: Julia Engelhardt on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Wendy Storer on Jul 21, 2011Comments: Short story cuts? Noooooooooooo...Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 21, 2011Comments: Please continue your commitment to the short story, for thhe sake of listeners and writers. The short story is ideally suited to this medium.Flag
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Name: Christine Pilgrim on Jul 21, 2011Comments: The arts, in all forms, contribute to good health ... and thus save a great deal in health care spending. If you make cuts to the arts, it follows that you will have to increase spending on health care. Go figure! Then please find other ways to decrease spending... get people walking or taking public transport (thus decreasing spending on road upkeep and upgrades... stop spending money on invading other countries for the oil needed to run all the cars that clog the motorways... oops... this is turning into a rant. Please, please reconsider your cuts to Radio 4 short stories!Flag
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Name: Paul McAuley on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Deborah Ragazzoni on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Amy Myers on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Michal Morse on Jul 21, 2011Comments: I grew up listening to the radio during the war - Toytown, The Magic Bedknob, later Just William and Jennings. The pictures generated are usually better than a film version! This cannot be a cost-saving cut, the BBC is being very short-sighted in losing these one-off short stories, so important to people who cannot follow a serial every day.Flag
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Name: Robert Powell on Jul 21, 2011Comments: The BBC is shooting itself in the foot here. The commissioning of new short stories is one of the things that distinguishes the BBC as a public service broadcaster. Reducing this output is just another small cut, but one of many that, taken together, will undermine the purpose and existence of the BBC as a publicly funded institution.Flag
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Name: Beverley Naidoo on Jul 21, 2011Comments: Nadine Gordimer once described the good short story as like an egg. She was talking about the crafting: a potent nucleus and every part relating to every other. As consumers of eggs, however, we also know how good they are for us! This uniquely compact art form needs crafting and nurturing. With its responsibility for the cultural well-being of Britain, the BBC should reconsider this ill-advised decision. One egg a week will leave both writers and listeners very under-nourished.Flag
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Name: Claire Whatley on Jul 21, 2011Comments: Short stories are one of the many joys of Radio Four. PLEASE leave them alone!Flag
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Name: Roderick Craig Low on Jul 21, 2011Comments: Never has it been more important to inspire listeners with fiction. In an age of endless news - most of it grim - the oasis of good stories read so beautifully by fine voices commissioned by the BBC lifts the spirits and transports us all to special places. If something works, don't fix it. The measure of a good radio controller is to conserve and enhance as well as to make changes. Your success will be measured as much by goodwill as by listening statistics. Please be proud of what has been achieved over the years.Flag
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Name: Anna Grayson on Jul 21, 2011Comments: This is yet another case of pointless cultural vandalism. Radio short stories are an important form of literature providing a unique experience for the listener. They are an important showcase for writers, both experienced and new, and are not expensive to produce.Flag
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Name: Akiya Henry on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Lindsey Barraclough on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Jane Borodale on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Mrs M Boardman on Jul 21, 2011Comments: As the mother of a student and budding author, I feel that services like that offered on Radio 4 could help him get his stories out to the greater public. A valuable and, for the listeners, enjoyable programme such as this does not deserve cuts.Flag
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Name: Louise Greenberg on Jul 21, 2011Comments: A controller with a background limited to current affairs perhaps can't understand the appeal that programming has for listeners. Extending a current affairs sequence is unlikely to increase maintain or increase Radio 4 audiences, the more so because there are now myriad sources for such material 24/7, particularly from other divisions of the BBC. Paying a fee for text and performer may make the stories appear costly per air minute but they have a value in attracting successive generations to R4. Controllers who favour the discursive over the imaginative wound the Corporation as well as the national culture.Flag
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Name: Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis) on Jul 21, 2011Comments: Having published nearly 100 short stories, I have already lamented the fact that the UK short story market has constricted dramatically during my writing career. This furher restriction fills me with foreboding for the future. Short story writers in the UK already have few opportunities for finding oulets and if thiss unwise decision goes ahead many great stories will simply have no means of finding public expression. The loss for writers, listeners and those appreciative of the short story genre will be tremendous.Flag
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Name: Pat Yale on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Lynn Kramer on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Alis Hawkins on Jul 21, 2011Comments: I listen to the Afternoon Reading at least three times a week and would miss being able to do so very much, added to which, as a writer of fiction it seems to me that the public's access to fiction in non-book form needs to be increased by Radio 4 in the current e-reading-friendly climate, not reduced.Flag