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Unfortunately I took the time to watch the episode which starred JL on BBC iPlayer. This was a dismal, predictable and very cheap piece of reality TV with (apart from JL) was a cast of utter morons. The voiceover guy was even worse, with a really irritating 'humorous' style which was basically to belittle anything and everything the least bit unconventional. I have enjoyed some of JLs writing and interviews, but this felt like a serious lapse of judgement. My only hope was that at some point the fact that JL is an anarchist would be mentioned, but of course that did not happen. Instead, he was described as a 'tree hugger' and derided accordingly.

I appreciate that going on the show was meant to work as a 'microphone', but all it achieved from what I could see was to confirm the mainstream audience's views of bearded, vegetarian, XR-types who deserve little but derision from mindless TV watchers. Perhaps his 'microphone' was heavily edited by 'auntie' BBC, but that would always be the case.