David Mellor's Classic FM show

[pastoralguy]

'Repellent' is rather strong, old chap.

I have to admit that the image of him rolling around on the floor on a blanket with Antoni De Sancha and a bottle of brandy nearby brings the repellent word nicely to mind! Was there not then a photo op. with him and his wife and family by a farm gate published as he expressed his 'regret'?

[Barbirollians]

I have to admit that the image of him rolling around on the floor on a blanket with Antoni De Sancha and a bottle of brandy nearby brings the repellent word nicely to mind! Was there not then a photo op. with him and his wife and family by a farm gate published as he expressed his 'regret'?

Yes later satirised to great, if rather crude, effect in Little Britain.

He is repellent I am afraid as PG points out.

[gurnemanz]

Amazing to recall, but true, that he once used to host the Five Live 606 football phone-in. I can remember one disgruntled punter calling him the c**** word live on air.

[Don Petter]

I have to admit that the image of him rolling around on the floor on a blanket with Antoni De Sancha and a bottle of brandy nearby brings the repellent word nicely to mind!

Ah, but as I recall he was wearing a Chelsea football shirt at the time. Not sure if this makes it better or worse.

[Nick Armstrong]

Ah, but as I recall he was wearing a Chelsea football shirt at the time. Not sure if this makes it better or worse.

Ah no.... she now says she made that bit up...

" ‘The Chelsea strip was made up,‘ she admitted. ‘I went along with everything at the time. It was almost like I was having an out-of-body experience.’
Asked about the spanking and toesucking, she added: ’It didn’t happen.’ "

Classy.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...id-Mellor.html

[Don Petter]

Ah no.... she now says she made that bit up...

" ‘The Chelsea strip was made up,‘ she admitted. ‘I went along with everything at the time. It was almost like I was having an out-of-body experience.’
Asked about the spanking and toesucking, she added: ’It didn’t happen.’ "

All very disappointing, then.

(But they can't take my images away. )

[Mr Pee]

All very disappointing, then.

(But they can't take my images away. )

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, or a blind prejudice. What David Mellor may or may not have got up to in his private life, or indeed his previous career, makes not the slightest difference when I listen to a radio show. After all, if you followed that line of reasoning, just think of all the composers whose music one could never listen to.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, or a blind prejudice.

Rupert Murdoch's mission statement, Mr Pee? (In which "newspaper" were the fabricated stories first published, remind me ...)

[Barbirollians]

Rupert Murdoch's mission statement, Mr Pee? (In which "newspaper" were the fabricated stories first published, remind me ...)

[Mr Pee]

Rupert Murdoch's mission statement, Mr Pee? (In which "newspaper" were the fabricated stories first published, remind me ...)

It never ceases to amaze the way some of you people twist everything you possibly can back onto your favourite hobby-horses. This thread started off as a perfectly well-intentioned and good natured recommendation of a radio programme that I found enjoyable and that I thought other forumites might find interesting, however you have managed to turn it into an anti-Murdoch rant once again.

It's pathetic. Get a life.

[pastoralguy]

And then we had John Major extolling 'family values' at the same as he was a 'friend' of a certain Edwina Currie...

[MrGongGong]

And then we had John Major extolling 'family values' at the same as he was a 'friend' of a certain Edwina Currie...

Quite

I have mixed feelings about the hideous Mellor
At least when he was in charge of Culture he was shagging an "actress" so might just have bothered to go to the theatre or to participate as a "member" of the audience in a musical event.......

But those are small crumbs IMV

[VodkaDilc]

Quite

I have mixed feelings about the hideous Mellor
At least when he was in charge of Culture he was shagging an "actress" so might just have bothered to go to the theatre or to participate as a "member" of the audience in a musical event.......

But those are small crumbs IMV

Do we have a culture minister at present? - or did Cameron look round his flock and decide that no-one qualified?

[vinteuil]

Do we have a culture minister at present? - or did Cameron look round his flock and decide that no-one qualified?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Miller

[Thropplenoggin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Miller

I'm always surprised to see M. Vinteuil using Wikipedia. I always imagine him leafing through a leather-bound volume of the Encyclopædia Britannica, a Black Russian Sobranie in a silver cigarette-holder dangling from his lip, wearing a bottle-green smoking jacket. Somewhat astonishingly, he has elected to marry this jacket with his apéritif - Green Charteuse.

In this instance, however, such 'old school' methodologies wouldn't have come up trumps.