Know Your Enemy

"As I listen to 6 Music today, I keep hearing tracks and thinking, where else would I hear this kind of radio during the day? The tragic answer to that question is nowhere. The end of 6 Music at this moment in the BBC's history is not only an act of cultural vandalism, it's also an affront to the memory of John Peel and a slap in the face to thousands of licence-payers."

Phill Jupitus's verdict on the BBC's proposed shut-down of 6 Music.

One suggested money-saving alternative has been proposed by soon-to-be-ex-MP James Purnell: "Rather than axing a brilliant, distinctive service, the BBC should close down BBC2 daytime." What, and lose repeats of Diagnosis Murder? The student outcry would probably be far louder than the one in defence of 6 Music...