Saturday Morning - Hannah French hosts a Christmas party, 21/12/2024

[smittims]

Certainly there is something unwelcome and even menacing in the persistent bullying and coercion to keep on celebrating Christmas till you drop. Radio 3 has really overdone it this year.

[oddoneout]

Ditto, I'd normally avoid Tom Service - and his fluffy mug was prominent on the listings!

He did a TV series some years ago where his hair was done in a way that made it look as if he had a hedgehog sitting on his head. I found the series interesting despite the TS element, but the hedgehog did sometimes get in the way of concentrating on the content...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Is this fluffy mug something to drink from or a form of bespoke facial adornment?

I think the deliberate scruffy look is all part of his desire to be noticed, though it’s strange, as radio doesn’t have much in the way of visual images.

[AuntDaisy]

He did a TV series some years ago where his hair was done in a way that made it look as if he had a hedgehog sitting on his head. I found the series interesting despite the TS element, but the hedgehog did sometimes get in the way of concentrating on the content...

Was it "The Joy of Mozart" from 2015?

[LMcD]

Was it "The Joy of Mozart" from 2015?

Are you implying that somebody might be a prickly customer?

[AuntDaisy]

Are you implying that somebody might be a prickly customer?

I've always found him light & fluffy, a bit like a soufflé. The off button is never far away.

[oddoneout]

Having thought a bit more it may have been a hat he was wearing that gave the hedgehog look - a furry cossack style item. I can't remember what the programme(s) was/were about but seemed to involve a certain amount of tramping around scrubby hillsides in cold weather.
I've just noticed that he isn't Mr Ibragimova anymore, not for some time in fact.

[LMcD]

Having thought a bit more it may have been a hat he was wearing that gave the hedgehog look - a furry cossack style item. I can't remember what the programme(s) was/were about but seemed to involve a certain amount of tramping around scrubby hillsides in cold weather.
I've just noticed that he isn't Mr Ibragimova anymore, not for some time in fact.

I'm 99% certain that photo was taken in Salzburg, as I remember standing at the same spot and enjoying that view of the city from the Festung.

[AuntDaisy]

I'm 99% certain that photo was taken in Salzburg, as I remember standing at the same spot and enjoying that view of the city from the Festung.

It was.

But almost down-under...
The caption (for the first photo) reads "Tom Service in Salzburg, Austrlia. Tom Service goes to Salzburg, home of Mozart, to distinguish the fact from the fiction."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gljsd/p02gljkp