Radio 4 again...

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Date: 16 December 2007 08:45:25

You can listen again on the BBC website here. Click the bit that says "Listen to the current programme, then they start talking about the SPCK shops about 25 minutes in.

Good to hear so many friends such as Aude, Dave and Richard being interviewed, just a shame about the reason they were being interviewed. Brilliantly and eloquently put guys!

There was a lot of rubbish too, such as Phil saying they had "Increased the variety of their stock..." Not the impression I get from going to the Exeter shop and seeing all the empty shelves, also he makes it sound like we left just over management style, but that was just one factor amongst many for people leaving, although he seems to deny that people have left because of them. Staff were not poached by bigger companies, we desperately looked for other jobs to get away from the bookshops! I also found it interesting that no one from SPCK would comment because of ongoing legal proceedings.

[Edited to add that this was my resignation letter, and that Phil received scores like it from our shop and others (I saw them). How he can say that people left for retirement or been "recruited away" is beyond me, they simply take only the bits that suit them, and live in a world far far from reality]