BBC entertainment on a Saturday, you get 'Casualty,' unlike any A and E I have been in, then you get a repeat film.

Sunday you get 'Poldark,' which seems to centre around a man's six pack, then you get another repeat film.

Other nights? Eastenders, I stopped watching this when they tried to portray little bald, fat Phil Mitchell as a 'hard man'. Wouldn't last 10 minutes around here!

River City? Fake Scots accents are a turn off. Great British Bake Off, this along with Celebrity Chef and others are maybe why 70 per cent of the nation is obese. Who the hell is Mary Berry? Some old buddy who bakes cakes. Bet she is next for the House of Lords.

Films, music. For years they have tried to dictate what we can watch and listen to. Soldier Blue, The Last Passion of Christ, and many more were banned.

These two were pretty upsetting but that is for me to decide, not them. Then the one's they censored.

Music? The Great British Mime (Top of the Pops), still shown on BBC 4. Songs banned, 'The Leader of the Pack' from the Shangri las. Too provacative. 'Johnny Remember Me', from John Leyton, too morbid. 'Je T'aime', from Serge Gainsbourg, too suggestive. 'Relax', Frankie Goes To Hollywood', too blatantly homosexual. 'Anarchy in the UK' and 'God Save The Queen,' by the Sex Pistols, too anti establishment. 'Spasticus Autisticus' by Ian Dury, they did not read the words, banned because of the title.

Dury was not mocking afflicted people, he was castigating people who did mock the afflicted. Dury was himself crippled by polio.

They tried to ban the bagpipe tune 'The Barren Fields of Aden', due to controversy about Aden at the time.

They got a broadside from the MOD and the Queen.

A Wizard of Oz themed song and video was brought out to coincide with Mrs Thatcher's demise. Offensive? To who?

The daddy of them all though, long before Top of the Pops, in 1943 was 'I'll Be Home For Christmas' by Bing Crosby, banned because of the last verse 'If only in my dreams'. Really?

If they really wanted to ban something, how about the stalker song, 'Every Move You Make' from the Police or Sting or anything by the creepy James Blunt.

What these overpaid pre-historic people could not grasp was a banned record was every record producer and group's dream, it would make a fortune.

The Sex Pistols and others went daft! The BBC had umpteen law suits against them over censorship and lost every time.

License fee? They should scrap it and pay us to watch the BBC!

BILL BISHOP,

Ballingry.