in this context by "sour grapes" i meant you wanted exposure for your book and maybe expected a more sycophantic reception (by which i mean maybe u expected them to run around after u in a way that u might get in America. In England we're expected to be grateful for a nice cup of tea and a choice of whether or not we have sugar in it and anything else is flannel and mollycoddling and a similiar aproach is taken by interviewers. Listen to the Today Programme on Radio 4 and note how the British culture of deference works or is suspended in a combative forum like an interview)
the fact that they phoned you doesn't negate this
the bbc is publicly funded and therefore has to be rather parsimonious with its money, my money which is more the British way
i suspect a level of culture clash
we may speak a similar language but we are not the same
also i suspect even Alan Turing would have been treated the same by Five Live (although clearly he never got anything approaching the respect he deserved and our treatment of him was a national disgrace but my point is that Five Live isn't necessarily representative of the bbc any more than Fox is representative of American journalism)

regarding firefox i've no idea i'm just running the latest version and the bbc player opens as a pop-up and i haven't even got it as an allowed site for pop-ups *shrug* i just drive the thing but i don't understand what goes on under the hood. I'm convinced that u would be rather more of an expert --- me low on technical food chain u write technical books *minnow bows to dolphin*

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