11 January 2008

Media - 11th January

- Transition Culture points out that Transition Town Totnes will be profiled on "The One Show" on BBC1, at 7pm.

[edited to add -- for their own reasons, the BBC didn't include the TTT piece ... I presume it will be on Monday instead]

- Malcolm Wicks, the Energy Minister, will be one of the four panelists on "Any Questions" on BBC Radio 4, at 8pm. Presumably, there'll be at least one nuclear-related question for him.

- Jamie Oliver has a programme on battery chickens on Channel 4, at 9pm.

The problem with this one is Jamie Oliver's credibility.

Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury's, had a "tense" conversation with Oliver, after the chef criticised the company for not appearing in an on-air debate on the show:

Oliver: "It is shocking that the people that I work for did not turn up on the day. I do not know why. The fact that your PR department has not even got the confidence to turn up and talk about what you do ... how dare they not? I was really upset."

Now, Oliver has written a letter of apology to the 150 000 staff of Saino's. He receives £1.2 million a year from Sainsbury's, and it's up for renewal in April.

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