{"id":71054,"date":"2026-02-28T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71054"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:16:17","slug":"eric-gill-and-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/02\/eric-gill-and-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Gill and the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His body  lies in a church yard<br \/>\nIn SPEEN<br \/>\nNear Prince&#8217;s Risborough<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1882<br \/>\nA sculptor so it\u2019s said<br \/>\nA type face Designer the BBC<br \/>\nHave led<br \/>\nThe charge<br \/>\nFor this  child molester<br \/>\nWho abused,  his own<br \/>\nWhich is Why they should disown<br \/>\nSuch a man<br \/>\nBut The BBC have  his naked child<br \/>\nOn their London frontage<br \/>\nIt has truthfully riled<br \/>\nquite a  lot of people<br \/>\nWho have tried to take  it down<br \/>\nAnd now it\u2019s in a protective box<br \/>\nLooking over London Town<\/p>\n<p>He died in 1940<br \/>\nOf Lung Cancer we hear<br \/>\nVery weird his character<br \/>\nHe brought a lot of fear<br \/>\nTo his little daughters<br \/>\nSo naked child we see<br \/>\nIn front of the building<br \/>\nOwned by the BBC<\/p>\n<p>Why would a corporation<br \/>\nKnowingly display<br \/>\nThe artwork representing<br \/>\nAn innocent child<br \/>\nToday<br \/>\nand everyday.<br \/>\nWhy do this<br \/>\nA dead child unaware<br \/>\nIt goes beyond a work of art<br \/>\nShe permanently,  bare<br \/>\nWhich honestly isn\u2019t fair <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His body lies in a church yard In SPEEN Near Prince&#8217;s Risborough Born in 1882 A sculptor so it\u2019s said A type face Designer the BBC Have led The charge For this child molester Who abused, his own Which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/02\/eric-gill-and-the-bbc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,244,831,763,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism-in-art","category-midfulness","category-model","category-people-i-have-observed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71056,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71054\/revisions\/71056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}