Complain to the BBC

[Darwinian]

Dear Mr Pritchard

Thanks for your e-mail regarding the BBC One programme 'That's The Spirit!' as broadcast on 31 May 2009.

I understand you were concerned with comments made in this programme as you felt they were irresponsible and shouldn't have been broadcast.

I'm sorry if you felt these comments were inappropriate as I can assure you we'd never seek to promote a bad example and it certainly wasn't our intention to upset any of our viewers.

We're guided by the feedback we receive and to that end I'd like to assure you that I've registered your complaint on our audience log. This is the internal report of audience feedback which we compile daily for all programme makers at BBC One, including the 'That's The Spirit!' team, and also their senior management. It ensures that your points are circulated and considered across the BBC. The audience logs are seen as important documents that can help shape decisions about future content.

Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.

Regards

Craig Thompson
BBC Complaints
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

---------Original Message-------------

I'm sitting here, gob-smacked, watching a programme on BBC1 called That's The Spirit.

And this preacher has just said, to the nation, that penicillin is wonderful because it can cure the body, but the power of the holy spirit is even more powerful and has greater healing powers because it heals the body from the inside.

How can the BBC allow such rubbish to be broadcast to the population of Britain? Basically saying that conventional medicine is ok but the power of God is much better.

Putting out messages like that will, I'm sure, make vulnerable and less intelligent people think, "Hey, I don't need to go to the doctor, all I need is the power of the Holy Spirit!" I would have expected this from some third world fundamentalist church, but not the BBC!!!