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mark occomore
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 Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:04 pm Post subject: Richard Bacon In For Jeremy Vine |
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TV and Radio presenter Richard Bacon is covering for Jeremy Vine. He's well known from the days at Blue Peter, Big Breakfast and various other TV projects which included the Wright stuff on Five. He briefly presented the Drive Home show on Capital Radio London and was heard on XFM. He currently presents a show on Five Live and has been rumored being lined up to take over from Simon Mayo when he moves to Radio 2 Drivetime show.
Take a listen as he covers from Monday 5th October. |
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Nickbucks
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The question does arise as to how long JV will do the lunchtime show for.
No one minds holidays but days here and there for Panorama etc. are a different matter. Seems he cannot break away from his BBC current affairs past. Not sure how long R2 management will put up with this although they seem content at present to let him do it. Perhaps the new controller has had more important things on his mind. Surely however the secret of maintaining audience figures is to have a regular presenter -
and not give the listeners the excuse to "shop around" ? |
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Ian Robinson
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Richard Bacon is one of my least favourite broadcasters ever. The bloke's a smug, self-satisfied, obnoxious idiot who's only in work because of his notorious Blue Peter incident.
I will not be listening. |
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Nickbucks wrote: | The question does arise as to how long JV will do the lunchtime show for.
No one minds holidays but days here and there for Panorama etc. are a different matter. Seems he cannot break away from his BBC current affairs past. Not sure how long R2 management will put up with this although they seem content at present to let him do it. Perhaps the new controller has had more important things on his mind. Surely however the secret of maintaining audience figures is to have a regular presenter -
and not give the listeners the excuse to "shop around" ? |
Not all time off are Holidays.
He was actually returning from a weekend away in Rome the other Monday that is why Matthew Bannister was sitting in. I think most of Panorama shows are done in some of his time off and not all clarified as a Holiday. It does count for a lot of other presenters on the Station. Dermot O'leary takes the odd Saturday off, not because it's a holiday it's for his TV commitments. Then they take Holidays when there is spare time. I'm sure this is written in there contracts. |
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| Ian Robinson wrote: | Richard Bacon is one of my least favourite broadcasters ever. The bloke's a smug, self-satisfied, obnoxious idiot who's only in work because of his notorious Blue Peter incident.
I will not be listening. |
Hope he mentions Blue Peter then, otherwise we won't know if Jeremy's off or not.  |
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I must admit Jezza seems to have quite a lot of time off.
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Helen May
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| mark occomore wrote: | | Nickbucks wrote: | The question does arise as to how long JV will do the lunchtime show for.
No one minds holidays but days here and there for Panorama etc. are a different matter. Seems he cannot break away from his BBC current affairs past. Not sure how long R2 management will put up with this although they seem content at present to let him do it. Perhaps the new controller has had more important things on his mind. Surely however the secret of maintaining audience figures is to have a regular presenter -
and not give the listeners the excuse to "shop around" ? |
Not all time off are Holidays.
He was actually returning from a weekend away in Rome the other Monday that is why Matthew Bannister was sitting in. I think most of Panorama shows are done in some of his time off and not all clarified as a Holiday. It does count for a lot of other presenters on the Station. Dermot O'leary takes the odd Saturday off, not because it's a holiday it's for his TV commitments. Then they take Holidays when there is spare time. I'm sure this is written in there contracts. |
He wasn't in Rome Mark, but Berlin.
It was to make a documentary on the Fall of the Berlin Wall for R2 and his show will come live from Berlin on the 20th anniversary in November.
Don't forget he also does Eggheads. JY used to have a fair amount of holidays........... usually 3 week stints as well.
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry Berlin. Oh right he was doing a doc there didn't know that. |
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| Would have preferred Brian Hayes or Clive Anderson |
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe Richard is been lined up for something big on Five Live, so Bob they are getting him used to daytime listeners. |
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Can't say I'm impressed with his efforts so far...........
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm impressed with him for his first day at Radio 2. I've seen him on Wright Stuff on Five doing similar topics and good. |
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I don't think Sarah Jarvis was Mark............
I can't see what the difference doing current affairs on R2 was from doing it on 5??
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Seemed ok to me.
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Wasn't for me. At times I couldn't spot the difference between the interviewer and interviewee. Didn't seem to have the same authority as the other stand-ins.
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| Helen May wrote: | I don't think Sarah Jarvis was Mark............
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I noticed that too Helen, though I didn't think Bacon was any more irritating towards his guests than Vine usually is. |
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I suppose we should be grateful they didn't get Alan Carr to dep for JV  the way things are going...
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| Personally I think Matthew Bannister is the best cover for JV. |
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I think Richard Allinson should do it.
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| Why not-a good suggestion-you never know he might be very good at this kind of show. |
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In fact, I think RA should do EVERY show on Radio 2
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I don't think there are many that he hasn't done!
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Not doing so well today I must say.
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Hi Johnump,
Glad it's not just me thinking that! He's out of his depth, and it's sounding very disjointed. I'm not saying I could do any better but then I'm not paid to be a broadcaster.
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| He is not too bad and Im no fan of his, not as good as Bannister, Hayes or Anderson, better than Vine?? By a short head yes |
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Vine is streets ahead (I'm not being biased either), he's just not professional IMHO.
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| Wish we could have had Clive Anderson doing the covering |
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He's not too bad if a little flimsy.. I wanted him to shut that Councillor woman up a couple of times...  ( Drunks Taxi fares paid by taxpayers )
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mark occomore
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| It's gets him the feel of daytime shows and the listeners reaction. |
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| MadeinSurrey wrote: | | I think Richard Allinson should do it. |
They can't he's not a celebrity. |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | It's gets him the feel of daytime shows and the listeners reaction. |
Well let Five Live listeners put up with him, why should R2 be dumped with trainees?? We pay the licence fee to have professionals.
I hated it when I had the work experience people in....... my boss was always extra nice to me in the run up to their arrival!
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| mark occomore wrote: | | It's gets him the feel of daytime shows and the listeners reaction. |
He's done loads of daytime stuff on 5 Live! When standing in for Victoria Derbyshire he famously told off an official in a flooded town for being daft for building a water treatment plant right next to the river. |
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Doesn't show in his efforts so far this week though Ian. I thought he was terrible today.
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| Helen May wrote: | Doesn't show in his efforts so far this week though Ian. I thought he was terrible today.
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Hey, I know it doesn't show - he's useless. The flooding incident is infamous because he launched a tirade against some hapless official asking "why on earth did you build a water treatment plant next to the river?" only to be told "er, because that's where the water is." Cue embarrassed silence. |
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I liked it when Brian Hayes sat in for Jeremy, he never stood any nonsense, or suffered any fools gladly! Why did they stop using him for cover?
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I don't know LEE.
Maybe he retired, I've don't know what age he is.
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| Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | | I liked it when Brian Hayes sat in for Jeremy, he never stood any nonsense, or suffered any fools gladly! Why did they stop using him for cover? |
I agree with that - Brian Hayes was a very good listen. |
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| was he the little camp guy in, It Ain't Half Hot Mum? |
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No that was Melvin Hayes, he was in Cliff Richard's films as well!
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I like that Rachel! I think you're thinking of Melvyn Hayes. I wonder if he's any relation. Why don't they show It Ain't Arf Hot Mum! these days? It was a good series.
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