hello i find it humorous that the programme in question is a history documentary titled:
Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01j2fcq/harlots-housewives-and-heroines-a-17th-century-history-for-girls-1-act-one-at-court On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Nic Siddle <nicsid...@gmail.com> wrote: > Inconsistent and illogical perhaps, but not insane, at least in intention. I > believe that the 'watershed' and its accompanyning rules are laid down in > statute, and therefore the rules are not down to the BBC. I, for one, would > want to protect children from unmoderated content, whilst acknowledging that > in today's world, this is in reality impossible. And yes - I do believe that > there is a difference between factual reporting of upsetting incidents and > pure drama which may contain violence/ sex etc. (though quite how EastEnders > qualifies as pre-watershed, I have never understood. > > Nic > > > > On 24/05/2017 16:21, David Woodhouse wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 10:18 -0500, artisticforge . wrote: >>> >>> hello >>> >>> that is insane. any child may watch the news, read a newspaper, listen >>> to the radio is exposed to the horror of Manchester, Paris, Syria, >>> etc. >> >> Yes. You're also permitted to have sex at 16 but you're not allowed to >> watch *other* people do so until you're 18. This stuff isn't expected >> to make sense. >> >> (The law fails to specify anything about the use of mirrored ceilings.) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> get_iplayer mailing list >> get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > > > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer -- terry l. ridder ><> _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer