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The Public Service Broadcasting Forum openDemocracy - Latest articles from openDemocracy The Public Service Broadcasting Forum Public service broadcasting: yesterday, today and tomorrow A contestable public service content fund Happy Passover from Gaza Book review: What Happened to the Convention on Modern Liberty? Moving Parts part 3: Guddu and Pintu India’s Women’s Reservation Bill Female suicide bombers hit Moscow Metro The Public Service Broadcasting Forum Thriving Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) distributed at times convenient for listeners and viewers is as vital to our democracy as it is to developing and strengthening our cultural inheritance. This is one of the basic assumptions underlying the... Read more » Public service broadcasting: yesterday, today and tomorrow The BBC has become one of the UK’s defining institutions – its existence, shape and size customarily have been questioned no more than has night following day. Only children, once or twice in their early lives, and a few licenced askers of... Read more » A contestable public service content fund The publication of the BBC’s Strategy Review, on 2 March, has triggered a broader debate: how should the BBC’s role be seen in the context of the broader crisis in the provision of public service content? In recent years, public service... Read more » Happy Passover from Gaza In 2010, Jews in Israel and around the world will celebrate Passover beginning on March 30. Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread commemorating the ancient Hebrews' escape from enslavement in Egypt. (In Israel,... Read more » Book review: What Happened to the Convention on Modern Liberty? Review of Rosemary Bechler, ed., The Convention on Modern Liberty: The British debate on fundamental rights and freedoms. "It’s the little things, always the little things, that get you in the end. For me, it was having to be police-checked to take... Read more » Moving Parts part 3: Guddu and Pintu Guddu and Pintu are looking at a road that cuts through fields of sugar cane. ‘Twelve per cent, minimum,’ says Guddu, who’s younger. ‘What are you saying? At least twenty percent, look at how the edges are going.’ Pintu is taller and... Read more » India’s Women’s Reservation Bill Despite laudable intentions, the Women’s Reservation Bill that passed with a thumping majority in India’s upper house is flawed because of its pitch and delivery. Parties on either side of the political spectrum have joined hands to support... Read more » Female suicide bombers hit Moscow Metro Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of rush hour Monday morning, killing 35 people. The first explosion took place at 7.56 at the central Lubyanka station, killing fourteen in the train and eleven on the... Read more »