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Post by Lawrence Jones on Jan 16, 2006 2:23:07 GMT -5
This programme just isn’t working for me – too one sided and too short to contain any real detail about the person under discussion. If Sir Terry was so fired up by the teachings of Professor Smith, then why did he stack shelves after graduating from UMIST? It struck me, though, that a programme about the Tiny Roland/Roland Smith relationship would be interesting to R4 listeners who don’t recall the friction that existed between these two individuals. Also, what about the relationship between the late Lord Hanson and Gordon White? Kirk Kerkorian would also be an interesting subject to profile, especially in respect of the current events within GM.
However, why no great engineers or scientists (or environmentalists)? This is just typical of the anti-engineering attitude of R4. I’d nominate Ivor Catt – he is a Cambridge graduate (although he isn’t posh).
P.S. Pheweee - Emma Fielding’s gorgeous voice!!!!! Now I don’t mind a million trails listening to that. Come to think of it, with a voice like that she should have been Judge John Deed's psychotherapist! It's always puzzled me if one ever reads the Girl wants a boy (and vice-versa) columns that one never reads: 'Must have a gorgeous voice'.
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Post by wave on Jan 16, 2006 10:19:54 GMT -5
Sir Terry Leahy
this programme has the finesse and depth of sun headlines - the business programme has produced many excellent and illuminating features of businesses and people... it makes me wonder who wants to hear this dullards type stuff... i suspect any schoolproject dealing with this topic, undertaken by keen pupils, would make better listening...
n.b. i feel u must have written to laurie taylor judging by his comments during his last programme...
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Post by Lawrence Jones on Jan 16, 2006 11:09:33 GMT -5
Sir Terry Leahy this programme has the finesse and depth of sun headlines - the business programme has produced many excellent and illuminating features of businesses and people... it makes me wonder who wants to hear this dullards type stuff... i suspect any schoolproject dealing with this topic, undertaken by keen pupils, would make better listening... Thanks for responding Wave - it’s the lack of depth that I find frustrating. All this solid working class Liverpool lad guff doesn’t tell me anything. They didn’t even mention which council estate he came from. To then get one of his old mates with a very, very strange Liverpudlian/pseudo American accent telling us all how wonderful he is……sorry but it makes for very poor radio. I kept wondering how Ms. Mary Goldring would have analysed his character. The Observer profiled Jonathan Ross quite recently and they didn’t make any reference to all the unacceptable comments (now ceased) that he used to make on his Saturday programme or his hostile manner when Mr. Roger Bolton interviewed him (via a telephone) for Feedback (long time ago). Mr. Bolton was exceptionally good and ran rings around Mr. Ross. It was this dark side of Mr. Ross’s character that I found interesting. There was an article in the Sunday papers at the weekend, concerning a pilot for a proposed business programme that Evan Davies could be chairing. The article suggested that he could be encroaching on the territory on the new BBC business editor, so I don’t know what will happen. No, I’ve never written to Professor Taylor and haven’t found R4 personnel very efficient in respect of replying to correspondence. Two notable exceptions: Mr. James Cox (from The World This Weekend) replied by return of post with a most detailed and thoughtful reply. The former R4 controller, Ms. Helen Boaden, also wrote when my letter didn’t even merit a response. This made quite an impression. I think girls make better letter writers than boys. One very well known female R4 presenter never bothered to reply. |
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