Comments on: Cosmic Quest

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:27:40 +0000

Am I wrong in thinking that if public funds have paid for the production of a show/podcast and also pay for the archive of produced output, surely the archives should be made freely available. I find it more than a little bit annoying that the BBC Radio site advises me of the existence & content of a show, tells me when it was broadcast, but does not provide access.

By: David Legg

David Legg — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:26:09 +0000

Well, I agree that it was a great series, but it suffers from the same problem as much BBC science output: It is full of brain-washing stuff about science being the answer to everything, and the fact that most people are disillusioned with science is not acknowledged. Then it attacks those who believe in God or the Bible as if only a tiny nutty minority of licence-payers believed in God. The stuff about life on other planets seems like a desperate attempt to put God out of business by finding life elsewhere in the galaxy - as if that would make any difference to the existence of God.

By: Alby

Alby — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:09:44 +0000

I want to agree with Steve’s post - I’m a physics teacher and I’ve desperately been trying to scrape together the complete series. I’d never thought to check “the torrentsphere” and sure enough, it’s there; but I shouldn’t have to resort to BitTorrent. Cosmic Quest has no long-lasting commercial value to the BBC - *why not* put it on line for all and sundry?

By: weaverfish

weaverfish — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:11:08 +0000

I could not agree more. If it were not for Speechification, I would listen to hardly any BBC content. The BBC should archive podcasts for listening in perpetuity.

By: Tips at Det perfekta tomrummet

Tips at Det perfekta tomrummet — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:03:39 +0000

[...] Inte bara länkar till radioprogram utan även debatt om radio, som ett välskriven påhopp på BBC:s idiotiska arkiveringspolicy (lika illa som SR), gör det här till en mycket läsvärd blogg. Förtjänar väl värd sin plats [...]

By: Bowblog: Freeing content at the BBC

Bowblog: Freeing content at the BBC — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:59:24 +0000

[...] had a bit of a whinge over at Speechification earlier on about the BBC’s content archiving policy. I find it [...]