Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie
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Don't you know we're all now part of the big, happy Radio 3 family. -
If she were a footballer, (like Giggsy) she would presumably be called Burty or even Burty-Hilly.Comment
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Since reading this, I've been constructing an imaginary family tree.Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostComment
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oh do post when complete , EA.Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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This morning I grabbed a bucket when RC referred to thanking Clemmy. UhhGGG, at least she didn't reply 'Thanks Robby'. I won't even comment on the content of the program as it is Christmas and it is usually bad. But then again, I heard the Sorcerer's Apprentice for a 3rd time in 3 days on the supposed Essential Classics and as usual Ruslan and Ludmila was back as well. Thank god for my CD player.Comment
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Yes, Serial_Apologist the over chewer. This is one of the most overplayed works on R3 along with Copland's Hoe Down from Rodeo.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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I think in the circs you can only blame the parents, what's she sposed to do?Comment
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I think my hosting days would be over.Originally posted by teamsaint View Postoh do post when complete , EA.
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In the circs, we could blame the BBC for dishing these jobs out to those in a small well connected circle, rather than, say, advertising them.Originally posted by muzzer View PostI will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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You live and learn.Originally posted by teamsaint View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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I can't speak about the circs of this appointment, but the BBC were the first national organisation to introduce the principle of selection boards for appointments.Originally posted by french frank View Post
It's rather a nice story. It seems that back in the 1930s the well known ghost hunter Harry Price did a broadcast with a man called Gavin Stamp who was in the running for a job with the very new British Film Institute. The two men were investigating an alleged haunting at a place called Cashen's Gap in Ireland, where a lonely farmhouse was being visited by the ghost of a talking mongoose. Yes, really !
The whole thing was broadcast as a spoof of course, but unfortunately a couple of BBC executives discussed it over lunch one day with a man from the BFI and said " You can't employ him, he believes in talking mongooses " Stamp lost the job, and when he heard what had happened sued the BBC and won substantial damages. After that, and to avoid trouble at mill, the Corporation introduced selection boards for all posts.
CORRECTION It couldn't have been Gavin Stamp, as he was born in 1948, it was Gavin somebody or other, and after all, ghost stories benefit from ambiguity!Comment
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She seems to have the jobs of about 5 people.
a sort of modern day Wogan.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Let me get this off my chest.... it's 0845 on Boxing day and we've just heard 1812 yet again. The reason? the cannons weren't loud enough (according to a listener) in the previous (and recent ) performance.Comment
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It could be worse. Rob Cowan could be playing the harmonica, just imagine that. Oh, wait, no need.Comment
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