“At 08.30 on Tuesday 26th January, 2010, Mike Chappell is going to be interviewed live on BBC Radio Cornwall by James Churchfield.
The interview will concern the ongoing abuse and insults shown to the Cornish by the media and individuals and follows formal communication between various people and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. (the Cornish have been accused as being lazy, lacking in intelligence, inbred, yokels, straw suckers and much worse in the papers and by others and so on countless occasions) Mike has copies of these comments taken from newspapers and elsewhere as recently as last week and so the evidence is there!
Later during the Lawrence Reed show, 12 noon to 3 PM, Mike Chappell’s interview will be replayed as a recorded piece and then apparently an invited speaker, an academic from Durham University is going to speak. His take is that the Cornish as a people do not even exist and so cannot be insulted! It is possible that Professor Philip Payton from the Cornish Institute may have air time to be interviewed to refute this – we can but hope.
We all know that the Cornish are here and that they are entitled to be regarded as a National Minority along with their Celtic Brothers and Sisters and numerous other groups.
Please, please can you listen into BBC Radio Cornwall and if possible telephone to add your support to the Cornish cause?
BBC Radio Cornwall is broadcast on 103.9 FM, 95.2 FM and 96 FM as well as on the internet.
The telephone number is 01872 22 22 22 to call a show and you can Email at: radio.cornwall@bbc.co.uk
Please could this message be circulated in the hope that the BBC can be shown the strength of feeling over this issue!
Meuras / Thankyou!”
(Received by email today 7.20 pm – sent by Tony)