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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

From the Telegraph:

"The "old-fashioned thoroughness and commitment" which he encountered in his early days with the Corporation have long disappeared he said.

The Radio 2 presenter, whose career with the Corporation stretches back over 40 years, said staff no longer held a job with the BBC in high esteem.

"When I started, people who worked for the BBC knew they weren't earning as much as people in commercial television, but they did have the satisfaction of knowing that they worked for one of the finest, if not the finest, broadcasting organisation in the whole world. I'm not sure they feel that any more, or at least that it means as much as it used to," Wogan said.

Illustrating the way times have changed, Wogan recalled getting his big break in the 1960s: "When I sent in my first tape to the head of Gramophone Programmes at the BBC, I had made the fatal mistake of forgetting to rewind it to the start. Yet that gentleman took the time to wind it all the way back, and once he'd listened to it, things went from there.

"I can tell you, if I was a young chap coming over from Ireland today, they probably wouldn't even listen to my tape, let alone rewind. Somehow, that old-fashioned thoroughness and commitment have disappeared. I suppose no-one has the time for it any more."

He also lambasted modern presenters "who just read out the autocue without any of their own personality and with these awful glazed eyes, like a seagull's", although he declined to name the offenders."

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

See Terry on the front cover of the Radio Times. A little air brushing there Laughing

He did say this morning about the interview. He always says some words are added, over enthusiastic journalists Laughing