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| Gnasty Gnome wrote: | | MadeinSurrey wrote: | Your Ladyship, I trust you have started a campaign to "BBBBNB" - Bring Back Baker But Not Ball?
I have to say my initial scepticism has given way to realisation that there are a lot, lot worse presenters than DB, and R2 have given millions of pounds of OUR money to some of them!! |
What MiS said.
Compared to Evans at his silly shouty worst (as in today's show) or Wrighty's smugness, I'll take DB (but not ZB) anytime.
Just read your last post, Milady, and am happy to inform you that the three "gentlemen" mentioned irritate the hell at least one "Daily Telegraph" reader as well!  |
..And at least one Times reader too!
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Lady Boil De Spudswell
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As a yardstick to popularity, the fairly lacklustre Tarbuck and Freeman show at No.9 in the R2 iplayer chart.
Baker & Ball got to No.2.
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Behind Geddon's Wall
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I did REALLY well this week, ten whole minutes before my innards threatened to choke me. Wossy was bad, but the Bannister reject was extremely dire, I have even stopped listening and contributing to 6-0-6. Zoe was inoffensive and ineffectual.
Bring back Alice!!!!!!
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Lady Boil De Spudswell
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| Behind Geddon's Wall wrote: | I did REALLY well this week, ten whole minutes before my innards threatened to choke me. Wossy was bad, but the Bannister reject was extremely dire, I have even stopped listening and contributing to 6-0-6. Zoe was inoffensive and ineffectual.
Bring back Alice!!!!!! |
Aliss Moss you mean? Yeah, quite agree. She was the best Baker foil!
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Behind Geddon's Wall
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Nah, Alice Richardson, then I can actually listen to 2 hours of radio!
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I'm not surprised at all.. I heard parts of the show but what I did hear was dire. She sometimes sounded like a French & Saunders micky take of a Radio 2 female presenter... The Beeb must be capable of better.
By way of a contrast, I was driving home last night listening to Suzi Quatro.. a different kind of show I know, but she can do it with ease!
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I used to like Liza Tarbuck, particularly on the Linda Green TV series, but this assumed "radio persona" attitude that she puts on really gets on my nerves. Saturday morning's show was a nightmare, everyone talking at once, too much chat altogether and this high pitched artificial voice she seems to feel is appropriate. To be honest, I'd probably rather listen to Zoe Ball!  |
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nod
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How about the Lisa and Zoe show ?  |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject: Dear oh dear.... |
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The topic was the TV series 'Kojak'.
Freeman: Did his brother George suck a lollipop?
Liza: No, just Telly.  |
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| Minx wrote: | | I used to like Liza Tarbuck, particularly on the Linda Green TV series, but this assumed "radio persona" attitude that she puts on really gets on my nerves. Saturday morning's show was a nightmare, everyone talking at once, too much chat altogether and this high pitched artificial voice she seems to feel is appropriate. To be honest, I'd probably rather listen to Zoe Ball! |
Yeah - see I think Liza's okay with Radcliffe but the problem is with her is she doesn't really know anything about music - and on Saturday mornings that becomes glaringly obvious. |
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Lady Boil De Spudswell
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Lovely, perfectly observed comment from SantaFefan about Tarbuck...
"She sometimes sounded like a French & Saunders micky take of a Radio 2 female presenter... The Beeb must be capable of better."
They are. Danny Baker. Got to No.2 in the Iplayer chart. Tarby and Co. got nowhere.
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Now wouldn't it be a nice New Year's gift if the Beeb came to their senses and axed Ross. It's been good being able to switch on to R2 on Saturday mornings!
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Lady Boil De Spudswell
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| MadeinSurrey wrote: | | Now wouldn't it be a nice New Year's gift if the Beeb came to their senses and axed Ross. It's been good being able to switch on to R2 on Saturday mornings! |
You're not alone my friend. This just in...
A letter headed Freshening the airwaves in the 3-9 January Radio Times: "I hope Radio 2 awards the Saturday morning 10am slot permanently to Danny Baker and Zoe Ball. Their show (22 Nov - 13 Dec) was a joy: no shameless back-slapping or endless stories about knowing other celebrities, just good radio. The story about a lady who fell in a freezer made me laugh louder than anything Jonathan Ross has ever said. Baker, as he does on 5 Live's 6-0-6, turned simple anecdotes into radio gold. Richard Conway, Stafford."
Nice one Richard.
I have to say, much as I quite like Alan Carr - this is a tough listen on now! (Alan Carr's Office Party - Xmas Eve)
Danny Baker's many years in radio demonstrates that there really is no substitute for experience. No matter how funny a stand-up Carr is.
You may not care for Baker but at least, for once, applaud Radio 2 for trying out someone with more than a fortnight's experience of the medium.
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Merry Christmas Your Ladyship!
Personally Alan Carr makes me cringe, so I am enjoying the festive delights of Classic FM.
Agree with the RT letter. I'm sure we are not alone...
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| MadeinSurrey wrote: | | Now wouldn't it be a nice New Year's gift if the Beeb came to their senses and axed Ross. It's been good being able to switch on to R2 on Saturday mornings! |
Oh, if only.... Then again, that would involve sense prevailing. Never gonna happen.
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| Lady Boil De Spudswell wrote: | | [You may not care for Baker but at least, for once, applaud Radio 2 for trying out someone with more than a fortnight's experience of the medium. |
A pity the show was so dire, and the show the week after, next..... |
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| Minx wrote: | | I used to like Liza Tarbuck, particularly on the Linda Green TV series, but this assumed "radio persona" attitude that she puts on really gets on my nerves. Saturday morning's show was a nightmare, everyone talking at once, too much chat altogether and this high pitched artificial voice she seems to feel is appropriate. To be honest, I'd probably rather listen to Zoe Ball! |
I've mentioned this before, but a friend of mine who's worked with hundreds of people in the entertainment industry (and teaches in a state school) says that Liza Tarbuck is the most horrible person he's ever met. She's not nice at all, and for me the insincerity comes through every time she's on the radio. |
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Lady Boil De Spudswell
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| nod wrote: | | Lady Boil De Spudswell wrote: | | [You may not care for Baker but at least, for once, applaud Radio 2 for trying out someone with more than a fortnight's experience of the medium. |
A pity the show was so dire, and the show the week after, next..... |
Subjective opinion. Fair comment. But nevertheless give me tried and tested radio pros like Baker over untried, raw, television chancers.
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