The good news is that Radio 4 is drop Home Truths at last. It's been a complete waste of air-time since about episode six. It was mildly amusing at the start. And John Peel made an interesting addition to Radio 4, until he pioneered the dreadful habit that they have all picked up now. And I blame Peely for this entirely. It's when he used to say "...and Mary phoned 12345678 or emailed hometruthsatbbcdotcodotuk or wrote to us at this nauseatingly boring address somewhere in the smoke, and told us about fitting her hamsters false teeth". Smug grin effect. Whimsical smile in voice. Drowned by scrabble of listeners reaching for their radios.
It is, for me, the radio equivalent of 'thought for the day', and inspires an almost Pavlovian reaction in me which consists of vomiting noises accompanied by off-button reaching.
Some things are lamented. But I doubt Home Truths will ever be repeated. With luck it will sink into the quicksand of time, gone and forgotten. I live in hope.
Aside: I also watched, with Shento who's 11, The Two Ronnies re-runs on UKGold: they were fantastic those two. And yes, the did do 'four candles' and yes, we both laughed a lot. See, some things on the Beeb are worth preserving. Ronnie B's death is much lamented in this house. Aside over.
And the more good news is that this means there may be an alternative to the dreaded Jonathon Ross on R2. I watched his Friday Night show last night and he had a varied range of good guests. Who then just all sat looking bemused (mind you it's hard to tell with Gary Barlow, he only has one expression. The world moves too fast for our Gary) while Ross told stories about himself, including one about eating doughnuts during sex with his wife, and showed vain fan-created pictures of himself. He is odious and self-serving. Really repellant.
But bad news about the loss of Home Truths is that it might also mean that there is finally a real choice to make on Saturday mornings. Recently Eamon Holmes on 5Live has been winning the Sat am contest, hands down. It's a superb show, but has the slight necessity that you enjoy sport. So rather blokey. But what they hey, this is a house of blokes and it's just started, so I'm off now.
Just time for one more good news, bad news:
Good news: the origami championships are live on Sky next week.
Bad news: it's paper view.
stand easy
4 comments:
oh god, sorry - that is such a mess now. . . who was the 14:20 one from?
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