We think its a bit dodgy that BBC are calling themselves Undercurrents now so we wrote to them..will post their reply when we receive it.

Legal department
BBC radio 3
Broadcasting house
Portland house
London W1A1AA


Re: Undercurrents on Radio 3

Dear Legal department at Radio 3

It has been brought to my attention that Radio 3 is running a programme entitled Undercurrents.

While we may applaud the issues covered in Undercurrents on Radio 3, we are worried that your audience may confuse radio 3’s Undercurrents with our own video/Television programs of the same name. We have reported human rights, social issues and environmental issues since 1993 under the name of Undercurrents.

We have made Television programmes for Channel 4 named Undercurrents and own both www.undercurrents.co.uk and www.undercurrents.org. We also presently supply archive images to BBC Television and radio under the name of Undercurrents.

Undercurrents would be interested to hear from you on when you envisage changing the name of your programme.

Yours sincerely,



Undercurrents