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The Now Show - 11th November

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Radio Waves Travel at the Speed of Light

The licence fee is 99 years old and sits there like the vulnerable andachronistic but incredibly good value compared to everything else thing that it is. You can tell no one really dares to defend it much because of the terrifyingly strict security that you have to go through in order to watch content on iPlayer. Just asking people to click a box is like asking a man holding a bag mark swag if he promises not to burgle your house. Another objection is how much the BBC pays a tiny handful of presenters like Gary Lineker and Graham Norton, but many stars are paid nothing like what you'd think. Since their launch in 1997 for example the telly tubbies have

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