Panorama, 16th May

According to Richard Bacon on Five Live now, the Home Office are furious about the BBC airing this programme, and that it was inaccurate...

I thought it was fairly good myself, and although I am getting a bit tired of this current influx of "what if" type programmes on the BBC, I did feel it dealt with it slightly better than the others. I'm sure they've already shown at least two other programmes that dealt with the same issues as this one! (The one with Gavin Hewitt, and "If")

Going back to my previous comment - if the HO are furious...they had their chance of comment!

Since you mention it, anybody know any direct links to the Five Live webstream without me having to download an update to play .rpm - the network here won't allow me...

Anyway...

Try rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio5/live/r5_tl_g2_1.ra

EDIT - on second thoughts, don't. It's not working here either

I have watched three different programmes on the same subject from the BBC and all were based in London. The chances are London would be more capable of dealing with such an event than any other city and the experts on the programme all spoke with local knowledge.

An interesting twist on the programme would have been if the attack was in Newcastle for example. How would the BBC report the unfolding events and how would the services deal with bombs on the Metro?

Ah yes, but it would have cost far more to bus gavin Esler up to Newcastle...

BBC One : What if a terrorist attack happened?
BBC Two : Learning Zone - Anatomy of a Terrorist Attack
ITV1 : Terrorist attacks from hell XVII
Channel 4 : Top 100 Terrorist attacks
Five : Terrorist Attack Weekend
Sky News : Was it the BBC's fault?

Re my earlier post

Surely it would be more helpful to broadcast something like this in London rather than speculative news reports etc.

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/image8.gif

Maybe you'd keep a skeleton rolling news service for other regions (which would be a bit crap), but surely the main thrust of the BBC (and broadcasters generally) has got to be to help the people in danger?

Try www.radiofeeds.co.uk

I think this must be the first time the World studio has been used for a Mocumentary of this sort. Some fascinating views of the studio. Interesting to see the large new BBC News logo (the swirly ribbon one) in front of Kirsty; is this where BBC4 news normally comes from? Nice to see the gallery "in action" too.
The question is, when did they have access to the World studio to make this? It's a bit tight to film between 0100 and 0500 I guess, so I suspect they did it during a weekend, when only 5m bulletins come from N8 (or could even be moved to N6 using back projection or CSO from N10?) It would be interesting if any BBC insiders had any information on this.

Marcus said in the original thread about this programme that

That still redirects to www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive which you have to download the RPM file off the radio player. The link that I posted above is the content of the RPM file, and that seems to time out on my end.