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The telly and the radio
Topic Started: Monday, 27. October 2008, 15:48 (1,050 Views)
Rose of York
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Television has gone down the pan. The only programmes I really enjoy are period drama.

Last winter we spent a tenner on a batch of videos of the sixties series Family at War. Brilliant! It relates the story of one family in Liverpool. They lose a son in the Royal Navy, another son is wounded, their son-in-law is missing, presumed killed. His wife eventually faces facts - he's dead. She falls for another chap, sets up home with him, plans to have her husband declared dead after the statutory seven years' absence. Oh heck, he gets found alive.

The series shows us how Liverpool people managed during the bombing raids, the women doing an excellent job of feeding their families with whatever is available.

Social barriers are breaking down. The family's son David is a right little jerk, no sense of responsibility towards his wife and children, but he is good at his job of Observer in the RAF, the RAF do not commission on the basis of birthright, they need folks with brains. David ends up with a commission, while his poor wife is living in a slum. Their children have been evacuated for the duration.

An excellent series, one of BBC's best ever.
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I remember that series,although I only watched a couple of shows. My mother would never watch it because,as she said, she lived through the war and didn't want to have to re-live it.
(perhaps it was also because I was very young and she didn't want me seeing all the goings on :wacko: )

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Mmmmm - good coffee. Sumatran? Love what you've done with the curtains. Must dash now. Will drop in later.
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Is the Car Park just an announcement or are we supposed to able to contribute.?
I'm a bit confused with these new topics.
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Derekap
Monday, 27. October 2008, 21:17
Is the Car Park just an announcement or are we supposed to able to contribute.?
I'm a bit confused with these new topics.
Make what topics you want, Derek. Just click on the New Topic button.
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Jonathan Ross and Russel Brand are funny (sometimes, maybe most) and should not be sacked, the media should back off and leave them alone.

I pay my licence fee, and the BBC shouldnt just cater for a middle class elite who are a bunch of snobs, but a cross section of society.
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At last! The BBC is rediscovering "standards of behaviour".

The suspension of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand might send out a message, that public humiliation and indulgence in vulgarity over the airwaves are not acceptable.
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The incident in which they were making lewd 'phone calls to the actor who played Manuel in "Fawlty Towers" is an obscene disgrace. They both should be banned from TV and Radio for life and without a penny compensation. A slip of the tongue I can partly excuse but this was obviously deliberate and probably in the hope of increasing popularity and ratings.

I must admit that I have never taken to Jonathan Ross but that is of course a personal opinion.
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They ought to suspend also that famous cook who seems unable to describe his recipes without obscene language. I don't watch him or any cook telling us about delicious "way out" dishes which viewers or listeners most likely rarely make.

(Should this be on the "Moaners' File?)
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Joseph Dylong
Tuesday, 28. October 2008, 01:22
I pay my licence fee, and the BBC shouldnt just cater for a middle class elite who are a bunch of snobs, but a cross section of society.
There is no connection between good manners and social class, or snobbery.

JD are you suggesting only the middle and upper classes disapprove of cruelty and vulgarity? My experience suggests that there is more kindness amongst those classed as being in the lower social strata, than there is amongst the more fortunate.
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Ross and Brand are two sick individuals.

I can't believe it happened on Radio 2! Radio 2 is what one's parents listened to when I was little!
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Where does this end:

Mock of the Week (anti Catholic)

Have I got news for you

Little Britain

Catherine Tate show

and many others!


Freedom of Speech.
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Clare
Wednesday, 29. October 2008, 18:34
Ross and Brand are two sick individuals.

I can't believe it happened on Radio 2! Radio 2 is what one's parents listened to when I was little!
Did you listen to the show?

2 complaints on the 18th, nothing to do with the phone call. The Daily Mail get onboard and create hysteria. People ought to get a life instead of contacting the BBC to complain beacuse of what a newspaper claimed, which was out of context.

This reminds me of the hysterical whip up after Diana died. My goodness, people, it isnt that bad.

Free Speech, and artistic licence.
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Joseph Dylong
Wednesday, 29. October 2008, 18:40

Free Speech, and artistic licence.

Free speech and artistic licence are important, Dylong, but there have to be certain limits in a civilised country, wouldn't you agree? The "lads' mag" style, loud mouthed bullying of an older gentleman over the 'phone, whilst being paid millions of licence fee payers' money, and then its broadcast of it across the nation I find unacceptable.
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I don't live in the UK. I don't watch TV. I have watched at most three hours of TV in the past three years, and two of those were a documentary about the Roman empire. Until a few minutes ago I had never heard of Mr Brand or the other people mentioned in this thread. So now you know where I am coming from.

I followed the link posted by Rose and read about Mr. Brand on the BBC's web site. I have to say that Mr. Brand is sick. And, anybody who thinks such phone calls are funny is also sick. Such phone calls are offensive, and reflect a sick mind.[redit][/redit]
Edited by SeanJ, Wednesday, 29. October 2008, 19:53.
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