BBC commissions new series based on Paris Lees autobiography - 'What it's like to be a girl'..

Sincere apologies if the story I posted was incorrect. It was posted in good faith, but I agree that there's not enough evidence to say one way or another if the claim was accurate.

'What it's like to be a violent man who dresses like a girl'

There. Fixed it.

Jaysus, this thread is like a sieve.

Someone is cross

The ultimate euphoria

Ok, thanks for clarifying @Clymene .
@AgathaSpencerGregson , I believe no license required for radio....no need to cough up! But yes, 3 is a bastion and relief from 4....

The only reason to listen to radio 4 now if you are, like me, middle aged and middle class, is if you like regular reminders of what an awful person you are and how dreadful your country is. I already know all that, because contrary to the claims of fashionable commentators today, I was taught about the empire and slavery.
I was also taught biology, rather well as it happens. So the beeb can shove the lees programme up its fat arse.

There is still good work being done at the BBC. Sanchia berg reports on the family courts, Hannah Barnes. But my god there’s a lot of dross.

This- and Deborah Cohen the journalist who worked with Hannah Barnes at Newsnight.
The commercial alternatives really seriously aren’t better- do people think Netflix or Sky aren’t captured? At least the BBC has pockets of resistance and it is answerable to Parliament.

I think the class bias in BBC drama commissioning is clear though- Lees’ caricatures of whole working class communities as so different to special him sound completely obnoxious. It’s like the blanket ‘cis’ term- viewing other people as not full human beings with minds. Incredibly narcissistic to assume that you know what other people around you are doing and how they are thinking all the time and to lump them all in as one horrible mass. A major red flag.

Same here I listen to Times radio over R4 a lot of the time. They also don’t interrupt as much

I still like some scientific programmes on R4 but R6 I’d find very hard to go without

Yes, I’m still coughing up for radio 3 (4 is down the tubes). Slight derail but I switched over from today to stig and asma on times radio yesterday and I was really struck by how much more lively and challenging the discussions and interviews were. The only today presenter left who has any vim is Justin Webb.

The BBC are pretty much captured at this point

I rely on their radio but struggling to view them well

For fucks fucking sake.

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There still must be a hell of a lot of people at the BBC hell bent on convincing us this is all fine.

Paris Lees was never a girl.

Always a girl, don't forget. Trans kids know as young as two.

So, effeminate boy growing up in a homophobic environment ... decides he must be really female? Doesn’t that rather prove the GC point?

Yes, it does.

As the Tavi whistleblower said, soon there'll be no gay kids left.

There is still good work being done at the BBC. Sanchia berg reports on the family courts, Hannah Barnes. But my god there’s a lot of dross.

Well the title of the show is wrong

Agree on the trolling, and the BBC is probably not diverse at all when it comes to thinking

How the hell can the BBC put out shit like this with a straight face?

Paris Lees was never a girl.

It makes me so sad that our supposedly neutral national broadcaster has sunk to this. They're en route to becoming a total disgrace.

So, effeminate boy growing up in a homophobic environment (and how the beeb moves an opportunity to portray working class northerners as knuckle dragging mouth breathers) decides he must be really female? Doesn’t that rather prove the GC point? What am I missing?

Always heartening to come on a thread and see so many deletions. Mumsnet displaying their commitment to freedom of speech ✌🏼

The BBC reading the room as always

still the sunlight will be strong!

I'm wondering if Lees will play themself.

Anyone know who will be playing the part of Paris Lees?

It would be outrageous from a feminist point of view for him to be played by a woman.

From the point of view of the trans community not having a transwoman take the part would be wrong.

Can we hope for Eddie Izzard?

To be fair, the deleted posts linked Lees to a murder they had nothing to do with. I saw that rumour floating around on Twitter the other day.

Deletion Central here we go again, by posters whose opinions I have come to respect over a period of time as being well informed and worth taking the time to read.
I wont be watching this proposed programme
I'm so over the bbc falling all over themselves to kiss the pinky, bluey, whitey ring.

The problem with writing a book and getting a TV programme done, is that people will do their own research.

That's why I, for one, am perfectly happy for these programs to be made.

And I don't think Mumsnet moderators, despite being all powerful and obvs omniscient, will quite have the reach to delete social media entirely.

Bloody BBC. Let's not forget they enabled Savile for years, don't ever expect anything but misogyny.

Anyway, at least this thread reminded me I needed to repeat my declaration I don't need a TV license. They'll never get a penny of my money ever again. Next step, move the parents onto on demand only.