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Jarvis Cocker: the BBC is just divine

Media Monkey: Pulp frontman compares corporation to a religion – and James Murdoch to Satan
  
  

Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker gets his point across. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Photograph: David Levene/Guardian

Never let it be said that Jarvis Cocker isn't devoted to the BBC. Oh no. "The BBC is the nearest I have got to any form of religious faith," said the occasional Pulp frontman, who hosts a Sony award-winning show on digital station BBC Radio 6 Music, at the Radio festival. "It's a benign presence, it's not trying to flog you anything and there for you to turn to should you need it." Just don't camp out on its steps if you want to protest against capitalism. It's got enough issues on its plate. Anyway, back to Jarvis. "You can't judge everything by figures and commercial activity. If everything is about flogging each other stuff life becomes pretty joyless. You have to accept it's not all about trying to flog stuff." But what about James Murdoch? "He's the other side. He's Satan." Get off the fence, Jarvis – tell us what you really think.

 

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