{"id":8521,"date":"2009-12-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/04\/criticized-as-insensitive-to-ethnic-minorities-bbc-radio-reviews-programming\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T12:00:00","slug":"criticized-as-insensitive-to-ethnic-minorities-bbc-radio-reviews-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/12\/04\/criticized-as-insensitive-to-ethnic-minorities-bbc-radio-reviews-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticized as Insensitive to Ethnic Minorities, BBC Radio Reviews Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/6678051\/BBC-to-review-too-white-Radio-4.html\">www.telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND, November 30, 2009: BBC Radio 4 is reviewing its programming in an attempt to increase its appeal to ethnic minorities following criticism that it is &#8216;too white&#8217;. Managers at the station are preparing to introduce a range of measures to address the lack of black and Asian listeners. These include commissioning more material with a distinctly ethnic angle, such as a documentary on patois that will be broadcast next month. The BBC has commissioned research to discover the diversity of the station&#8217;s listeners and has held focus groups with mixed panels of Muslims and Hindus to gain guidance on how the output could be changed to reflect multi-faith Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.telegraph.co.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, November 30, 2009: BBC Radio 4 is reviewing its programming in an attempt to increase its,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}