Queen's Birthday Honours

[subcontrabass]

Chi-chi Nwanoku upgraded to OBE

Roderick Williams OBE

Sandie Shaw MBE

[subcontrabass]

What, er, actually IS a companion of honour?

One grade below Oder of Merit.

[Conchis]

The following caught my eye...

Sir George Benjamin, Dame Sarah Connolly... and Sir Mark Elder and Sir Paul McCartney made Companions of Honour.

(And Dames Julie Walters, June Whitfield and Olivia de Havilland (100 years young ); and Sir Billy Connolly)

As Kenneth Williams would say: 'It's the cheap day returns.'

[Nick Armstrong]

As Kenneth Williams would say: 'It's the cheap day returns.'

[french frank]

The following caught my eye...

Sir George Benjamin, Dame Sarah Connolly...

Loved the BBC News (online) story which reported these two at the very end, adding the useful information: "Connolly - who is not related to her namesake Billy … "

[pastoralguy]

Chi-chi Nwanoku upgraded to OBE

Roderick Williams OBE

Sandie Shaw MBE

Well done to them. We're lucky enough to know Chi-Chi and she's a wonderful woman.

[P. G. Tipps]

Sandie Shaw ... you mean the lassie with the big bare feet .. ?

Is that why she has been honoured?

[doversoul1]

Also in the new Queen’s Birthday Honours list, BBC Radio 3 In Tune presenter Sean Rafferty has been awarded an MBE for services to Broadcasting

http://radiotoday.co.uk/2017/06/obe-awarded-to-globals-founder-ashley-tabor/

[teamsaint]

Also in the new Queen’s Birthday Honours list, BBC Radio 3 In Tune presenter Sean Rafferty has been awarded an MBE for services to Broadcasting
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2017/06/obe-...-ashley-tabor/

I bet he wasn't prepared for that.......

[pastoralguy]

I bet he wasn't prepared for that.......

(Although we bumped into him at the Edinburgh Festival and he's a lovely bloke).

[pastoralguy]

Surely there should be a knighthood in the pipeline for Andrew McGregor!

[cloughie]

Sandie Shaw ... you mean the lassie with the big bare feet .. ?

Is that why she has been honoured?

Probably as deserving as many of those puppets on other person's strings. Mind you the whole honours thing should be scrapped.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Surely there should be a knighthood in the pipeline for Andrew McGregor!

There are so many occasions when a pipehood in the night would be more appropriate. Whilst holding the corrupt and farcical system in contempt, I cannot imagine why there should be any public award for anyone who merely presents a radio programme adequately - or even well. There are thousands even of "Dinner Ladies" infinitely more deserving public thanks and respect.



Besides, would the Queen get a word in edgeways in a twofer with McGregor? "It is a lovely sword, isn't it? But how do you think it compares with some of the older swords - perhaps a little too much braiding on the hilt? And it doesn't come with texts or translations, does it? Better than Karajan's though."

[Richard Barrett]

Whilst holding the corrupt and farcical system in contempt, I cannot imagine why there should be any public award for anyone who merely presents a radio programme adequately - or even well. There are thousands even of "Dinner Ladies" infinitely more deserving public thanks and respect.

All these Sirs and Dames and Orders of the British goddamned Empire are yet another example of how our culture tells us to perpetuate the values attached to certain "achievements" and not others.

As I mentioned on another thread, I had the honour to share a programme and a pre-concert jabber with Harrison Birtwistle a month or so ago. In the latter I had a moment of being tongue-tied in referring to him, feeling it inappropriate to refer to someone I'd met for the first time a few minutes previously as "Harry", or for that matter by the compositorial surname, and I was b***ered if I was going to utter the words "Sir Harrison" so I ended up with "my highly esteemed colleague" which I hope didn't come across as ironic, it wasn't meant to

[Serial_Apologist]

All these Sirs and Dames and Orders of the British goddamned Empire are yet another example of how our culture tells us to perpetuate the values attached to certain "achievements" and not others.

As I mentioned on another thread, I had the honour ...

I thought you were about to say something else there, Richard!

...to share a programme and a pre-concert jabber with Harrison Birtwistle a month or so ago. In the latter I had a moment of being tongue-tied in referring to him, feeling it inappropriate to refer to someone I'd met for the first time a few minutes previously as "Harry", or for that matter by the compositorial surname, and I was b***ered if I was going to utter the words "Sir Harrison" so I ended up with "my highly esteemed colleague" which I hope didn't come across as ironic, it wasn't meant to

Handled very well, iimss - you would have probably found it impossible not to sound ironic by addressing him as 'Sir Harry'.