From our own correspondent - warning?

I listened to it while on my long drive south yesterday; I am 99.9% sure there was a warning before the programme that some listeners may be upset by one of the reports. It was horrific.

You are right about small children, the Schools programmes once broadcast the execution of Charles 1 complete with drumroll, delay then chop. We would have been about seven. It was so graphic I was sick, other children distressed and since then I cannot watch or listen to anything relating to that particular action. If I do, it gives me nightmares. The BBC does ignore the fact that small children can be listening or watching. Even the 6pm news can be graphic.

There are so many warnings now that sometimes I think....is this really worth my watching? Usually though,it's ok ( Think Downton Abbey, ulcer scene) other times it's...get it off quick!So radio should be the same, especially if it was as bad as that.So I agree, Alea and Luckygirl with what you both say.

Not sugared Jings, just a warning that we're going to have to swallow something unpleasant would be nice.

It is a programme for grown ups. The purpose of it is to tell us what is happening in other countries. Why should the pill have to be sugared?

And yes, I did hear it. And it was horrific.

Do they think that because there are no visuals we'll find it less disturbing? Personally I'm disturbed either way as I'm blessed/cursed with a vivid imagination. I've been caught out twice on FB this week with very distressing pics of what happens to sea birds/turtles with all the litter that floats on our oceans. No warning at all-one minute I was watching what I thought was a clip of some beautiful birds/animals and in the next frame there is a horrific picture of a shell-less turtle (I can hardly keyboard that....head running away from image it's creating) with insides full of litter. It was so disturbing. I know this happens and I do my best re litter and beach clean ups as I live by the sea but I don't want to see this over my breakfast without warning.

Thank you katek I began to wonder if I am just "of a sensitive disposition" but after saying he wouldn't give all the grisly details, the reporter proceeded to do just that.
"Home Front" an hour later, which is Drama, was preceded by a warning that it contained a scene which "listeners might find distressing", fair enough it was, but surely fact is more distressing than fiction?
Maybe I am just getting squeamish as I get older, but I'd rather be that than hardened to the point where it just passes me by.

I heard it in the car Alea and agree with your sentiments. They do put warnings out for some television progs so can't see any reason it couldn't be done for radio broadcasts.

I have had a correspondence before with the BBC about graphic TV newscasts during the daytime and early evening when children could be watching. The bland reply they gave justifying it on the grounds that people need to be informed completely missed my point about young viewers. I gave up.

I didn't hear it but it certainly sounds as though it should have some kind of warning. Impressionable little children could be very distressed. The poor victims of the torture though......