Blighty 13 - Resend

Hello again, you will of course have noticed, I hope anyway, a long gap in editions of I

Miss Blighty, and I have to tell you now a big explanation is on the way, during what

will be, certainly for the immediate future, the last edition of this podcast. An explanation

will follow in just a moment. So I think it's some four weeks since we last had the opportunity

to chat and whatever. I don't particularly want to make this a normal edition or a long

edition. I do, however, owe you an explanation and a big thanks to the

many, many Blighty addicts who've emailed and got in touch with us saying, what is going

on with the show? In a nutshell, my job, as you know, is as a broadcaster outside of this,

which is my hobby. I was fairly astounded about four or five weeks ago to discover that

one of my colleagues had sort of tipped me off, if you like, that there were

grumblings within the broadcasting organisation for whom I work, that this was not the kind of

thing that I should be doing, and that there may be conflicts of interest between doing this

and doing my professional job. I'm being rather careful in the way I phrase this and in what I'm

saying, actually, because I have no doubt whatsoever now that what I am saying to you now is actually

something that could be listened to by the people who pay my living wage. So to cut a very long story

short, despite a quite long behind the scenes protracted negotiations and whatever, it has been

decided that should I wish to continue my employment, that I cease this podcast. So I have

truly, truly enjoyed doing this. I have actually, without wishing to sound a hero,

invested quite a lot of, a reasonable amount of money and certainly a lot of time into Blighty.

I have enjoyed absolutely every minute. I think we've done some fun things. I think we've done some

quite adventurous things. I've immensely enjoyed bringing you flavours of things like the best pub

in the south of England, as far as I remember, towns in the south of England. We've cooked

curries. We've done all kinds of things, haven't we? And I think it's been a very, very, very

We've talked to you from across the other side of the world, and I've genuinely loved every minute

of it. I don't see why I should hold back and say that I'm really sickened by attitudes of certain

people to whom I owe an allegiance. And I think it's probably fair to say that their attitude

sums up a paranoia fairly rampant through the radio industry as regards podcasting and podcasters.

Broadcasters who really should know better, clearly in some cases, neither really understand

nor wish to understand the wishes and aspirations of the podcasting community. And without getting

too bitter, and I don't wish to do that, because, you know, I feel that's an insult to you, really.

I was astounded when my inquiries as to whether, you know, I could continue, basically felt I was

on pretty safe ground, that this wouldn't be a problem.

Just making trouble for me when my inquiries led me in the other direction, and I was to

pretty much to cease doing this. I rather wonder, actually, if I'd not actually made inquiries at all

and just carried on, you know, what would have happened. But it's a little bit late for that now.

So I kind of make apologies, really, for the ignorance and lack of understanding of some

people. But I do have

a wife to support and a house to live in and a mortgage to pay. I would use the cliche,

stay subscribed, because maybe at some time in the future, I can unravel all this and we can get

back to being friends across the podosphere, from the UK, here in Aylesbury, to wherever you are

listening around the world. But for the moment, that doesn't seem possible. So I just sincerely,

genuinely,

thank you for your time. Thank you for listening. You've been brilliant people. I've really enjoyed

corresponding with you. I hope we've managed to bring you a flavour of Blighty. Put it on hold,

put it on the back burner. Don't unsubscribe. I don't know when I'll be able to talk to you again.

But if it's not cluttering up your machine too much, keep a little space on there for I Miss

Blighty. I sincerely, genuinely hope we can come back at some time in the future. And so as you

know, we've played you an awful lot of tracks on the podcast. And I hope you've enjoyed it. And I

hope you've enjoyed it. And I hope you've enjoyed it. And I hope you've enjoyed it. And there was one

really that stuck out when I came to look at what we'd end up with. I really genuinely cannot think

of more appropriate words really, than sung here by Eva Cassidy. This is called Say Goodbye. Let's

say au revoir, rather than goodbye. I leave you with Eva Cassidy, thoughts from all of us here in

the UK, from I Miss Blighty. A huge thanks to you for listening. And I hope you've enjoyed it. And I

hope to talk to you sometime in the future. Here's Eva Cassidy.

Tell you why, why I left you and said goodbye. Must be the mood I'm in. I'm thinking of you again. I call you up just to tell you why, why I left you and said goodbye.

Goodbye. I know you're different now. And I guess I changed too. And I thought what once was right was so wrong for you. Yesterday I was talking and I heard your name. The weather's fine here with a slight chance of rain. So I call you up just to tell you why, why I left you and said goodbye.

Tell you why, why I left you and said goodbye. Must be the mood I'm in. I'm thinking of you again. I call you up just to tell you why, why I left you and said goodbye.

And goodbye

Time makes you sorry

For the things that you've done

Sometimes you walk away

And sometimes you run

And the weather's fine here

I can feel a slight chill

Some things change, baby

And some never will

So I called you

Just to tell you why

Why I left you

And said goodbye

Ooh, must be the mood I'm in

I'm thinking of you

Walking, I called you up

Just to tell you why

Why I left you

And said goodbye

I called you up

Just to tell you why

To tell you why

To say I love you

And to say goodbye