Radio Five Live Guests
>> Sunday, September 27, 2009
In a column from last November titled "BBC must end its smug comedy consensus" the Guardian's Martin Kelner said he was helping produce some pilots of a talkshow for Radio Five Live; he explained that he was keen to avoid the "cosy broadly leftwing" consensus found on shows such as Richard Bacon and Gabby Logan. I was reminded of this when, flicking through the stations this morning, I heard Mrs Logan chatting with her studio guests - Mark Steel, the old school leftie comedian, and Mark Thomas, the old school leftie comedian.
I can only assume that Kelner's proposals were rejected as I've heard nothing from Radio Five Live to suggest anything has changed, consensus-wise, since he wrote that column. Perhaps the controller thought that a Guardian columnist would be too tentative in addressing the obvious problem of bias and has asked Richard Littlejohn to make a programme instead. Or maybe the BBC is simply happy with things as they are, thank you very much.
(Gabby Logan on this morning's show: "What did you make of Obama holding hands with Sarah Brown then? There's a lot of women in the world would've liked to be in THAT position!")
I can only assume that Kelner's proposals were rejected as I've heard nothing from Radio Five Live to suggest anything has changed, consensus-wise, since he wrote that column. Perhaps the controller thought that a Guardian columnist would be too tentative in addressing the obvious problem of bias and has asked Richard Littlejohn to make a programme instead. Or maybe the BBC is simply happy with things as they are, thank you very much.
(Gabby Logan on this morning's show: "What did you make of Obama holding hands with Sarah Brown then? There's a lot of women in the world would've liked to be in THAT position!")
23 comments:
The Tories really do need to rise the filth out called the BBC. Gabby Logan is a vile piece of human scum, so she's perfect for the beeboids.
<span>I sometimes wonder if you're a sockpuppet, Martin. </span>You certainly need to get sense of perspective. Gabby Logan is in no way "<span>a vile piece of human scum". She's a pleasant enough media celebrity who finds herself presenting a current affairs radio prgramme, and as consequence parrots BBC received wisdom (eg she thinks Obama is great and makes lazy Bush & Palin jokes whenever the opportuniy arises). That makes her irritating and tedious at worst. What words do you have left for the genuine monsters of this world if Gabby Logan is vile human scum? On second thoughts. don't bother answering that.</span>
DB She is vile human scum because she's a leftie beeboid. Have'nt you managed to get it through your effing thick left wing bonehead yet that I hate ALL beeboids and lefties? She's scum vile scum, a parasite who can't get a real job.
Radio 5 live.
The station that aims to be the radio equivalent of the Mirror.
And fails.
Radio 4 is touted as a 'thinking' station. So much so, it employs a tranche of leftie 'comedians' such as mentioned in this article that can only make the listener think what most contributors here think.
Bring on a couple of right wing comedians - in the interest of balance - and give them some airtime.
But that wouldn't fit would it.
The BBC cannot change the way it works, it is too large and set in its ways owing to the type of management in place so normal (cack) service will be resumed as soon as possible.
Ok Martin, calm down. I'm going to back away now, very slowly. I promise not to make any sudden movements that might upset you.
Bes thing you could do arsehole is jump off a bridge.
Spot on, you only have to see the list of journalists and the papers they work for to see how the beeboids see the world.
The Grauniad
The Independent
The Daily Mirror
Their favourites being toilets MaGuire, Fat Belly Toynbee, Steve Richards and Sir michael Shite.
I've only had the privilege of blogging rights here for just over week and so I will let the more senior bloggers determine acceptable behaviour in the comments. I will say this though - Martin makes Biased BBC look very bad, and he has done so for a long time.
Is there any "right wing" comedians in Britain?
Small steps, John. Nearly twenty years after Margaret Thatcher resigned we had Mark Steel and Mark Thomas on the same BBC radio prgramme this morning. Realistically we're still aiming for "not radical left wing" rather than "right wing".
DB - I agree . I was jumping too far ahead.
Martin, a sockpuppet?
No, he is to Biased BBC what Bez was to the Happy Mondays. :)
Gabby Logan - why?
Listened to that self important porridge muncher Naughtie on R4 the other day. He has quite a style, if the person he is interviewing doesn't give the right answer then just precis what you think he ought to say then go to the other guest - add bias as necessary, allow your 'favoured' guest extra time then say the interview has run out of time.
Whilst they talk of change, they won't need to.
Wow a whole week.
Bez is my brother!
Radio 5 with my mate fattie Nolan giving Liebour an easy ride. Why is it that after 13 years in power the only thing Liebour/BBC can do it attack the Tories.
13 years in their comfort zone. The BBC don't want to change, why should they? I don't think there will be much change even if the conservatives win the next election. Even Mandleson wants to join them if Labour loses.
JHT: Want to take a bet that Mandelbum ends up with a job at the BBC after June next year?
It's 12 years of a Labour govt. not 13, yet. Just a technical point.
I can't think of any funny right wong comics anywhere. They exist in America, but they aren't funny. Comics who make a big thing of their left wing politics often aren't very funny either, the best ones tend to just be cynical and miserable about politics in general.
How about a selection of 'appropriate' comedians for us - because I can't think of many funny right-wingers
12 years and 5 months, it'll be near enough 13 years at the election
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Right-wing comedians are indeed a rarity in this country. There isn't the career structure open to their left-wing counterparts (ie the BBC) but does that mean a show such as Gabby Logan has to put on overtly political left-wing comics every week? It was the two Marks yesterday, and next week Ian Stone or Kevin Day will probably be on. And if not Day, the chances are the other class warrior Kevin – Maguire – will be there offering his, ahem, wisdom. If Maguire, why not Quentin Letts? Or how about letting someone like James Delingpole loose one Sunday morning? What a refreshing change it would be to hear a guest quoting Christopher Booker in the paper review and and giving the eco-lobby a good kicking. Perhaps it's just the case that these guys have better things to do on a Sunday (and so should I).
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