Not even sweary songs after the watershed… WHY?

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you obvisouly don’t listen to any of the late night radio one stuff. Essential mix & annie nightingale etc, a lot of dance music has references to violence and sex and they have swearing all the time but they have a disclaimer at the start of the showing saying ‘if you think this might offend you then go to the BBC website and listen to something else.’ which is nice.

I remember listening to John Peel once reading out the name of a band called Prosthetic C***!!!

12am/ midnight is the radio watershed, Heard some naughty language on the Radio 1 Rock Show past that hour. And the DnB show. Radio 4 has stuff like piss and bastard and i’ve heard a shit there too, in mid afternoon. Open your ears, you can hear obscenities if you really listen out for them.

Or listen to pirate stations, they don’t give an F.

R4 has swearing throughout the day for your listening pleasure.

AFAIK the watershed does not apply to radio per se and I guess R4 figures that the cool kidz just won’t be listening…

Reported.

If you mean why do the normal playlist songs that are edited, not get played unedited after the watershed. Then it’s just that radio stations don’t want two versions, one to make it easier to find them, and another to make sure that the unedited version never gets played at the wrong time it’ll just reduce risk by not having it on the system.

As others said when there is material that is only played late at night on specialist shows, then they normally just have the unedited version as it is never in the daytime playlist

In the Netherlands they don’t give a rats. Honestly, you can hear a “F***” or whatever at 9am 😯

In the Netherlands they don’t give a rats

We’ve stopped listening to the radio in the car when my daughters with us because of that. Still get caught out sometimes when it’s on TV though.

Bandit FM in Stockholm play all sorts of sweary stuff, shocked the hell out of me first time I heard it.

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****RUDE WORDS**** Lololooololllolol

Even Radio 1 has swearing late at night.

Bandit FM in Stockholm play all sorts of sweary stuff, shocked the hell out of me first time I heard it.

They have it right though, it is just so ridiculously stupid to be offended by a statement like “**** up” when the whole of the mainstream media use statements like “sexed up dossier”.

It is just illogical language constraints with roots in mediaeval religious superstitions.

I was amazed when listening to radio 2 a while back that they wouldn’t play the top 2 songs because they were offensive, so they chose to play number 3 in the chart – Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines.

Just, wow.

Thinking back, I remember listening to Radio 1 at about 3am once in the late 90s with a few mates whilst indulging in some fungal treats…

Jayne Middlemiss went off on a proper bitter rant about Eternal, saying they were a bunch of F*c*i*g B*t*h*s

It was pretty trippy 😆

Anyhoo, is it cultural suppression, or are we just a jolly polite bunch?

I think the aversion to swearing in England is funny.

“IT JUST DOESN’T HAPPEN I’m GOING TO CLOSE MY EYES AND EARS NOW LALALALALALA AND IF YOU SWEAR YOU ARE A REALLY REALLY BAD PERSON….OH NO HE SWORE ON TELLY”.

Back in the day Siouxsie got banned from radio 1 for saying (of Blondie) “Why do they have to release all the singles off the effin album” (or words to that effect) on Round Table. (Pop fact fans)

Nina Persson from The Cardigans dropped the ‘F’ bomb on Radmac on 6Music last week. A small apology mas made.

^^^ not by Nina anyway,mmmmmm Nina 😈

mmmmmm Nina

Nom nom nom. 😉
Thought it was funny, she couldn’t quite grasp what the issue was, and RadMac, bless’em, seemed to be caught between ignoring it and letting it pass, and toeing the corporation party line and making an apology.
Trouble is, there’s a significant number of people who seem to be professional complainers, willing to get angry over the silliest thing, and then ‘Incensed of Spalding’ gets all Daily Mail on the Beeb’s ass!

There was genuine outrage from Radio 4 listeners a few years ago when one of the news presenters said “One pence”.

Im sure its just a gentlemans agreement not to swear whilst children may be listening, ie the school run

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words

And George Carlin on the subject 😀

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There is a fair amount of swearing on commercial radio here in Oz… when it happens it really clunks, although maybe that’s because we Brits are not used to it. Personally, hearing people swear in front of kids boils my p*ss, and swearing on the radio (at a time when there are likely to be kids listening) amounts to the same thing.

Just come back from the US, where they air “Law and Order, Special Victims Unit” (and other programs with adult themes) all throughout the day on the telly. I’m not a believer of the “video games cause violence” theory, but I can’t help feeling that being exposed to swearing, violence etc. day-in, day-out must have a “normalizing” effect over time on kids (and adults for that matter, I suppose).

IMO the UK have got the broadcasting standard thing broadly right…. but I’m sure somebody will be along to correct me in a minute 😀

I’m pretty sure one of the radio 1 presenters played the sweary version of rage against the machine “killing in the name of” one time by mistake. Much to our amusement at work.

Radio censorship is weird. I’m sure there must be about 30 different versions of Nickleback’s “Rockstar” with different words muted or left in.

Teenage Dirtbag is another, I’ve heard the line “her boyfriend’s a dick, he brings a gun to school” with neither, either or both of ‘dick’ and ‘gun’ to school. I guess they’re aimed at different territories who are more or less prissy about guns and dicks.

about 30 different versions of Nickleback’s “Rockstar”
Yeah, I can’t believe they play that garbage!