Thanks to the BBC website providing all its radio programmes online, for a week, for free, this isn’t the parochial story it might have been. For several years now radio (and web) listeners who wanted a range of music taken from the alternative side of the spectrum, with quality from across the decades, and investing in DJs who were sometimes genuinely amusing, could turn to 6 Music. You wouldn’t get Justin bloody Bieber, that’s for sure, but you might get a Jimi Hendrix session and some breaking indie without insipid adverts for a local car dealer. But now the BBC, under fire from political opponents obeying Rupert Murdoch, are saying they’ll shut 6 Music down. This just as Jarvis Cocker from Pulp has started one of the few genuinely intriguing art based shows. They’re also seriously planning on shitting the Asian network. You bastards, we demand our licence fee back.