RESPECT FOR SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB JI

[R4G]

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

Live phone discussion about the RESPECT FOR SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB JI Campaign tonight from 8pm to 10pm (GMT) on Akash Radio - Sky Digital Channel 918 or http://www.akashradio.com/listen.htm

Please call in with your comments.

GurFateh!

[amorphous_singh]

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

In between trying to catch Paaji on News24 (hopefully I'll be able to put a recording of that up soon), responding to emails and a million other things I managed to capture the network stream from Akash Radio's net feed.

Before giving the URI's to listen or download the captures, I just wanted to say that I haven't had time to cut/paste, dice/slice the recordings so they are complete with Adverts etc. Also I missed the beginning of the show; which was just a lead in by the presenter. Additionally I had a network drop after about 20 minutes in to the show; so there is a small break while I resumed the connection. Hence why there are 2 files.

Additionally I had to do quite a bit of converting to change them from a Windows format ASF feed (I'm not a windows user) into MP3 format, consequently the files are quite big. If you want to wait I will be able to remove Ads and compress into smaller files later tonight and reload the updated files.

So given all the above - here are the recordings:

http://june84.org/audio/akash-R4G-part1.mp3

http://june84.org/audio/akash-R4G-part2.mp3

Part 1 is 13Mb in size - approx first 18 minutes

Part 2 is 53 Mb in size - approx last 1h and 16 minutes

Apologies for not getting the whole thing and the size, etc. Marfi.

Given all of the that - it was a very good discussion. And worth listening to.

As for the last guy that phoned in (Gurmukh Singh) - what a joker!! Sigh!

[amorphous_singh]

Technical note: if anyone wants to download and do the necessary splicing and dicing and size reduction etc before I get a chance then you can grab both files in a tarball from

http://june84.org/audio/akash.tar

For you info; in case it helps:

All done under Linux;

The stream was captured using mplayer,

The resulting ASF was converted to WAV via mplayer

LAME was used to encode the WAV to mp3

Let me know and I'll arrange for june84.org to host the resulting file; or upload it to somewhere else suitable.

Share and enjoy. Inform and educate.

[Sher Khalsa]

SINGHS DID AN AMAZING JOB...

[London Singh]

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

I listened into the programme and have to say a big WELL DONE to the respect guys and all the Singhs and Singhnia who attended the various places to avoid any beadbi happening. :doh: Overall, it was great to hear so many callers who support the campaign but I am shocked at the few callers who just don't understand that it is disrespectful to have prakash of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji at hotel/hall venues.

One caller suggested that in Ilford nothing should have been done except take photos and video film, then show this evidence to the police, who would then escort the campaigners to take Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji out of the so called Giani's house. Which country do we live in? Would the police seriously assist in this? MP Rob Marris when interviewed on BBC radio said that the whole Respect Sri Guru Granth Sahib campaign is an internal religious matter - I don't think the authorities will assist us in this, maybe I'm too pessimistic?

Keep up the great seva Veer Gurjeevan Singh Jio.

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!