You can’t say that!

Taste and Decency in the Age of Compliance

20th Jan 09

3rd Floor, The Gibson Building 29 – 35 Rathbone Street, London

Some listeners want dangerous and challenging…

Others want safe and comforting…

One listener’s offensive is another’s edgy…

Previous events in radio have shown how difficult it is to make and uphold universal rules on taste, decency and language.  Do we need a TV-style watershed?

Does compliance mean stifling creativity?

Host Trevor Dann was joined by Annie Nightingale, veteran Radio 1 DJ, Richard Lindley, former BBC reporter now chair of the Voice of The Listener & Viewer and Ian Parkinson, Media Consultant/ former Head of Specialist Programmes BBC Radio 1.

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