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FIFTY FAMILIAR voices to television audiences took off on Monday for an announcers’ reunion day out on a couple of Routemaster double decker buses. The idea of the get-together came from Malcolm Garrett-Eynon (continuity 1974-2001) after meeting colleagues at a recent funeral. The buses are owned by a group of BBC presenters including Radio 2’s Ken Bruce who was a driver for the day
ALL ABOARD: Day trippers include announcers Richard Straker, Matthew Jackson, Bruce Goddard and Malcolm Garrett-Eynon Restrained pay Dancing with Better things rise of £450 wheelchairs at Ariel Online IT MAY NOT BE MUCH but everyone WHEELCHAIR USERS are to get a WE ARE DELIGHTED to announce that ◆agrees that in tough times something ◆spot in showbiz with a dancing series ◆from this week a new look Ariel Online is better than nothing. The pay deal on BBC Three. Is this an imaginative way has a range of improvements that include agreed between management and unions of bringing disability into mainstream wider coverage of BBC news in a website gives a rise of £450 a year to those on programming or are more realistic that’s easier to use. The service is still on salaries below £60,000. Pages 3 and 10 portrayals being overlooked? Page 10 trial – tell us what you think Page 6 > THE WEEK’S ESSENTIALS 2 PEN A POEM 5 OPINION 10 MAIL 11 JOBS 14 GREEN ROOM 16 < 162 News a 00·00·0802·06·09
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Even BBC One’s The Appren- IT WAS QUITE A WEEK FOR ITV. average ratings of 11.8m, 13.2m, might relax ITV’s advertising rules. tice was no match, attracting just INFORMATION IN AN EMERGENCY Billed on air as ‘A week of finals’, 12.7m and 12.3m – often grabbing Britain’s Got Talent certainly dented 6.5m viewers – well down on its aver- Telephone 0800 0688 159 with Britain’s Got Talent, the Champi- well over half the total audience. the BBC’s viewing figures. It was age for the series. 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A weekly take on life at the BBC: THOSE IN GLASS HOUSES... Media Monkey was ▲ who’s up, who’s down, who’s off swift to poke fun at 5 Live newsreader Cory Allen PHOTOGRAPH: S PHOTOGRAPH: when she announced that there had been ▲ ‘widespread condemnation of North Yorkshire’s decision to carry out a nuclear test’. As karma would have it, they moved on to a story about ▲ AM P how commuters were able to pick up copies of ▲ EACH the Evening Standard from London’s ‘mainline radio stations’. Sadly it was a subbing error, rather ▲ than a multimedia revolution at the paper... WHOEVER SAID watching grown-up television ▲ UPSIDE The MC&A knowledge team cel- was bad for children? A boy of seven saved his little ebrates the arrival of Ida, a 47 million-year- brother from choking by using skills he’d seen on LAND OF SPIKE OF LAND ▲ old fossil, to the Natural History Museum. his favourite show, Casualty. Cavan Day slapped two Ida was in London for a day, before flying year-old Ethan on the back when the toddler got a ▲ to Oslo. The significance of the fossil was ball stuck in his mouth. ‘I saw a scene on Casualty explained in Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor, once where someone was choking and I just re- ▲ narrated by Attenborough, which got 3m membered what to do,’ said the nonplussed hero. viewers on BBC One last week. (l-r: Saman- ▲ tha Burnett, Victoria Asare-Archer, Daniel NOTHING WRONG with a bit of choking on televi- Buchuk, David Attenborough, Su Fall, Kate sion (see above), but heaven forbid a child witness Orman) some kissing. According ▲ to the Daily Mail, Wil- Pat Noel had a surprise encounter when liam Barclay-Clark ▲ she booked herself into the wrong hotel over ITS ALL IN (9) is angry at the bank holiday weekend. The BBC Oxford the number ▼ receptionist wanted to stay in the centre of ‘revolting’ of Lincoln but ended up in Scunthorpe. So kisses in Robin ▼ imagine her surprise when Manchester THE LYRICS Hood and has United players and Alex Ferguson turned WHEN SOMETHING funny or unex- SWINE FLU You Give Me Fever by lodged a for- ▼ up in a large bus outside of her hotel. pected happens on live television it’s Peggy Lee mal complaint She shook the great manager’s hand but immediately obvious. With radio, how- NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TESTS: Love with the BBC. couldn’t muster the courage to ask him for ever, the moment can be more subtle. Missile F1-11 by Sigue Sigue Sputnik; ‘In Robin Hood, ▼ an autograph. Exhibit one: Three Counties Radio. Boom! Shake the Room by DJ Jazzy snogging hap- There had just been a news story about Jeff and the Fresh Prince; and It’s The pens every single ▼ DOWNSIDE Martha Kearney writes in the a fatal house fire in Leighton Buzzard. End of the World As We Know It by week,’ fumes Wil- June issue of Reader’s Digest A producer or presenter didn’t quite REM liam. ‘In the last series ▼ how her beekeeping hobby make the connection between the bul- G20 PROTESTS: Fight the Power by Maid Marian died and now left her with a swollen face letin’s headlines and what song they Public Enemy; and I Predict A Riot by Robin is pretty much with every girl.’ Dear William, ▼ after a couple of nasty stings. were about to play next: Disco Inferno. the Kaiser Chiefs green room is afraid that most men on tv have this ‘My face swelled greatly over- Cue the inevitable email to all staff, CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL RESULT: tendency to, um, cast their nets wide. ▼ night and when I arrived warning about getting burned. We Are The Champions by Queen; and to present The World But perhaps there’s a rebel in the Barcelona by Montserrat Caballe and IT’S TOUGH failing in public – and an interview in ▼ At One the next day, ranks. Immediately after a bulletin Freddie Mercury the Guardian shows that Davina McCall hasn’t quite there were jokes from about Margaret Moran stepping down As for the disgraced MPs, we think got over the failure of her eponymous talk show on colleagues about the as Luton South MP last Friday, some- they should all be singing along to BBC One in 2005. ‘I stopped reading the papers but ▼ elephant woman,’ one, intentionally or not, played The Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks: ‘The whenever I went out, people hugged me, consoled she reveals. Moody Blues’ version of Go Now. tax man’s taken all my dough/And me. I was weighed down by their insipid pity. So no, In the spirit of insensitivity, green left me in my stately home/Lazing on I don’t want to do a chat show again, I’m still fairly room has come up with its own list of a sunny afternoon/And I can’t sail my bruised,’ says the presenter. Which is rather strange inappropriate songs to be played after yacht/He’s taken everything I’ve got/ since the article is about how she’s trying to find EARWIGGING recent news headlines. All I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon.’ a home for a new talk show she is developing and OVERHEARD AT THE BBC (surprise, surprise) not having much luck. YOU CAN do all the compliance courses you like, …Yes I will, as soon as I get the but there is always the peril that someone is going Subway surprise to say something inappropriate on live radio. Last cranberry out from between week, an interview with screen legend Tony Cur- the X and C keys… MOST OF US have had that moment of tis on Radio Ulster turned into a masterclass in coming across a friend or acquaint- swearing. The frail-looking 84 year-old was being …I’m not going to be a ance in a totally unexpected place. interviewed about his new book, American Prince, For Charles Runcie, it was across the when he swore several times and used the f-word. prostitute; I’m going to do Atlantic Ocean. The head of sport for Presenter William Crawley apologised for the actor, the old, blind woman… the English regions was in New York who didn’t know the show was live. Maybe some- last month, taking a morning subway one should have told him. …Doesn’t everyone collect the stickers downtown to the financial district. When he heard ‘Charles, Charles’ OKAY, SO everyone knows that the BBC had a off bananas?... shouted from the other end of the Geoff and Charles find themselves in programme lined up for the death of the Queen carriage, he looked up from his news- the same subway carriage in NY Mother. But apparently the corporation is also … Don’t marry a farmer… paper to see his opposite number in working on one about the still-to-be-confirmed Wales, Geoff Williams (head of change we were talking about a recent BBC engagement of Prince William and Kate Middle- …I’m teaching him far too much attitude… and internal comms). meeting.’ ton. According to a news item, a bragging execu- … Shola Ameobi [Newcastle striker] has Geoff was with his wife and daugh- Charles says he once met football tive was overheard saying that ‘we would not be ter for a long birthday weekend. commentator Alan Green on a beach spending money on this programme if we had not added me as a friend on Facebook… He ‘I’d no idea he was in town,’ Charles in Yugoslavia too. But, don’t worry, been assured that they were definitely going to get hasn’t spoken since they went down… tells the green room. ‘Needless to we’ve no picture of Green in his beach engaged’. 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