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Post by Edward Trunk on Nov 29, 2005 2:35:02 GMT -5
Anyone following this? Too much upper-class bonking for my liking – the sex scenes are overdone. It really is bad manners to stay as a guest in someone’s house or flat and then indulge in noisy love making! The Eccles impersonations are also tedious. I thought Mr. Raphael was very interesting in Start The Week. Did anyone hear him?
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Post by Lux Interior on Nov 29, 2005 13:50:46 GMT -5
I caught the second episode on Sunday during a long drive (back from Cambridge, as it happened). If I hadn't managed to leave the music cassette I'd taken along in the boot, the serial would have been switched off very early on.
I couldn't help thinking about Dr Jones and wondering what his reaction would be to this tale of ex-Cambridge meeja types.
Having missed the first episode might have put me at a disadvantage, but I found all the characters loathsome (and bad-mannered, as you say, Mr/Rev/Professor/Viscount Trunk) and their doings uninteresting in the extreme.
I do not care a jot what happens to any of them.
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Post by The Conjurer on Nov 30, 2005 1:37:53 GMT -5
I do not care a jot what happens to any of them. Neither do I - they probably all got jobs at the BBC. |
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Post by BBC Recruitment Office on Nov 30, 2005 15:15:18 GMT -5
Are you serious? Or wanting a job!  |
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Post by Edward Trunk on Dec 1, 2005 2:01:21 GMT -5
Of course I'm serious. Clare Balding, Mark Damazer and Jenny Cuffe are all Cambridge graduates. Sir David Frost was blabbing on about Cambridge on Sunday’s DID (what an awful programme that was). Another point, how come we don’t get any R4 controllers who graduated from Northern universities? Helen Boaden graduated from Sussex university. Why isn’t Feedback investigating this issue instead of wasting time discussing swearing? Tessa Jowell should be investigating this! They hate the north at R4. Have you ever noticed that all the French classic serials and plays translated into English always assign northern (hybrid Yokshire/Lancashire) accents to the baddies? They repeated that awful Elgar play on Saturday recently and the ‘ghost’ who kept rambling on about ‘Sir Blackbird’ sounded like Nigel Pargetter – who sounds like Giles Brandreth!!!! Yukkk! I’ve got a fab job (well just about) working in a factory (earning foreign currency!!) with gorgeous northern ladies! We often indulge in spontaneous dancing on the shopfloor. You’d never see that at R4! Everyone has to know their place. |
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Post by Edward Trunk on Dec 1, 2005 2:19:00 GMT -5
The Eccles impersonations are also tedious. Sorry I think it was Neddie Seagoon and not Eccles. |
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