{"id":2204,"date":"2011-04-17T09:42:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T09:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/the-dread-broadcasting-corporation-a-history\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T09:42:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T09:42:52","slug":"the-dread-broadcasting-corporation-a-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/the-dread-broadcasting-corporation-a-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dread Broadcasting Corporation [a history]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\"><p>The Dread Broadcasting Corporation was set up towards the end of 1979,<br \/>  shortly after Margaret Thatcher came to power. While the population at large<br \/>  seemed to embrace the new capitalist mood, I recall that things remained<br \/>  pretty bleak for the average black Joe or Josephine. Their sense of<br \/>  exclusion was reinforced by the lack of black music on the radio: we were<br \/>  expected to make do with the prescribed &#8220;specialist&#8221; titbits (amounting to<br \/>  between two and five hours a week), even in the most densely populated<br \/>  ethnic areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiobanter.com\/showthread.php?t=29073\">radiobanter.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><object height=\"417\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tAbRdK10BXU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tAbRdK10BXU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"opaque\" height=\"417\" width=\"500\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dread Broadcasting Corporation was set up towards the end of 1979, shortly after Margaret Thatcher came to power. While the population at large seemed to embrace the new capitalist mood, I recall that things remained pretty bleak for the average black Joe or Josephine. Their sense of exclusion was reinforced by the lack of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2011\/the-dread-broadcasting-corporation-a-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dread Broadcasting Corporation [a history]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}