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I was just about to start a new thread on this since, as you see, I've closed the other two because, coming back from a day's meeting in London I was met with rather a lot of PMs and Reports. DS's thread will do the job just as well!
I met Petroc a couple of times when he was in Bristol for the Earth Music festival and he really is a lovely chap. He reads the forum and overall he thinks we do a good job in promoting Radio 3's programmes which is an important function of the forum. Quite clearly he takes in good spirit anything that's said about him - which is much to his credit.
Perhaps the best thing is to wish him all the best and hope for a speedy resolution to his current difficulty.It 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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Me too.Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Wise decision. I did think that the suggestion that Auric be removed, as well as his post, seemed just as unwelcome as the action of the Zimbabwean authorities.Originally posted by french frank View Post
I agree wholeheartedly.Perhaps the best thing is to wish him all the best and hope for a speedy resolution to his current difficulty.Comment
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Best wishes to Petroc in the coming days. I am sure that the musical collaboration, at which it has officially been reported he was a volunteer, was a worthwhile project for all involved and in the country that is the chosen home of some of his family.
He is currently in hospital having dislocated his shoulder but is in good spirits and being supported by close friends.Last edited by Guest; 26-05-12, 22:28.Comment
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Hope he gets back ok. And maybe no-one should go to Zimbabwe until they've sorted themselves out, which won't be in our lifetime I suppose.Comment
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Oh no. Poor Petroc. I am glad he he is having treatment fopr his shoulder thoiugh. Hope he returns soon, safew and well.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Many thanks to doversoul for updates. Wishing Petroc all the very best too.Comment
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Reportedly 'following a fall in a police cell'....Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View PostComment
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My best wishes too for a speedy resolution. I hope he knows that many people are thinking of him and wishing him well.Comment
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Photojournalist Robin Hammond was recently imprisoned in Zimbabwe for nearly a month
With help from his fiancée and the New Zealand Embassy he was eventually released
I hope that the FCO is able to secure Petroc's safe return much more swiftlyComment
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why was he there without a work permit? it was an event at the Zimbabwe Academy of Music ... this might put it in a lighter perspective
what might have happened the other way round ... what if a Zimbabwean radio DJ comping at a Birmingham festival whilst on a tourist visa was arrested for improper papers?....are we perhaps demonising the African State? .... try Birmingham nick as an African .... or dealing with our Border Police and immigration rules .... were he and his chums relying on them being incompetent in Zimbabwe despite the evidence they were very concerned about foreign artists popping in, performing and popping out without a permit ...
i do wish him home safe and no doubt he will be, just as i would extend a hand to help someone who had stumbled into the manure pile and was covered by the proverbial but i would still be chuckling .......According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Let's hope it's all sorted soon.
I am beginning to think he has greater depths than his R3 work suggests. It seemed odd to see him as a newspaper reviewer on the television news, but now he's doing it regularly he's showing considerable insight into a wide range of stories. It's just a shame that he has an uncanny resemblance to George Gideon Osborne.
I see that The Observer describes PT as being "in his 40s". Is he really that old?Comment
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