Stuart Maconie just nailed what it’s about on a 5 Live interview. “It wasn’t about the KIND of music if offered it is about the ATTITUDE its listeners have to music”.
For me 6 Music is about the love of music by and for people that love music.
I like all sorts.
6 Music offers that.
It is a street fight between BBC4 and 6 for the greatest radio station in the world.
4 would win. but 6 has my heart.
See when they tried to shut 6 Music down a decade ago I was on the frontline of its defence. At the time it had less than 1 million listeners it now has something like 2.5m.
Presented by Radio 4 and BBC World Service this eight-parter is written and presented by Gabriel Gatehouse. It starts when Gatehouse meets, but dismisses as newsworthy, the Q Shamen months before he shot to global fame as one of the figureheads of the January 6th storming of the Capitol Building in Washington last year.
You remember the guy. Crazy hat, crazy spear, crazy look.
Anyway that’s actually the end (or the current situation) of a story that has its roots in 16th Century witch-hunting, leading to the Clintons (and Q Anon’s accusation that they lead a global cabal of child eating paedophiles).
It’s essentially a mash up of pretty much every conspiracy theory you’ve ever known, bringing in another paedophile story linked to satanic worshipping in a pizza parlour basement that didn’t actually have a basement, Clinton’s email fiasco, Trump’s Russian connections, Putin’s interference with the Western elections, William Rees Mogg’s vision of a new society where the intellectually superior become the only survivors of a collapsed global economy and the gathering conviction among Republican voters that QAnon is onto something. Most roads do lead back to QAnon and the growing influence this ridiculous cult exerts on otherwise sane people.
Gatehouse’s research is excellent. His weaving together of the narrative is compelling and his delivery self-effacing (he admits more than once to disappearing down rabbit holes and actually falling for some of the conspiracy theories he’s trying to debunk). Most of all it’s just really interesting and superbly pulled together.
So, whilst the world didn’t end on 6th January 2021 he postulates that the potential endgame of the gathering may not in fact be the end but a seriously deluded, and dangerous, beginning.
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