Lynne Truss Interview

[Billy Raises His Cap]

Did anyone listen to the interview with Lynne Truss concerning bad manners and rudeness on last night’s Front Row? I noticed that she didn’t mention the bad manners and rudeness that’s endemic within the BBC and R4. So, I’m still waiting for a reply to all those emails that I sent to Mr. Loosmore, Mr. Damazer didn’t have the courtesy to respond when invited to introduce himself (and inform contributors of his own broadcasting influences) on the R4 message boards. Another commissioning editor on R4 never addresses correspondents to Feedback with their name and simply refers to them as ‘your correspondent’. Anyone notice how the excellent Roger Wright did address the correspondent to the programme with their name? We’re still waiting (over two years now) for a response to our polite request in respect of who was responsible for the removal of the R4 DID board…………

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D to the lot of them!

[Crusoe]

Billy said:

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D to the lot of them!

I didn’t actually hear the interview but heard some of her series on manners and rudeness. There is, undoubtedly, irony in the fact that there are few ruder organisations than the Beeb, but I fear that hypocrisy comes quite naturally to them: you only need to look at all the fuss being made about “John Peel Day” when Radio 1 had continued to marginalize Mr Peel more and more towards the end of his life.