I try not to listen to BBC Radio 5 Live for health reasons. It is so appallingly biased that raised blood pressure is the inevitable consequence and that’s just not good for me!One program that I try to avoid at all costs is that of Simon Mayo in the afternoon. The good news is that Mayo is away at the moment. The bad news is that Colin Murray is replacing him and he makes Mayo look almost adequate. During an interview with the Minister of State for Schools Jim Knight I heard him ask if Knight “who works 24/7 to make things better” got depressed by the bad publicity from the delays in getting SAT results out. Toughie, huh? Meanwhile Colin let the dark Knight distance himself and his lousy Department from having ANY responsibility for the process it instigated and manages.
WHY FIVE A DAY IS BAD FOR YOU!
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At least Nicky Campbell is in China. Mayle they’ll shoot him by mistake!
David Vance: No offence mate, but the three worst presenters on Radio 5 are Celts. Nikki Campbell, Colin Murray and of course the totally vile Stephen Nolan.
Murray is a dickhead. A radio 1 reject who appears to know sod all about sod all.
I’ve been complaining about this prick since he took over from Mayo. Did you not see my comments about the interview he did with Ken Livingstone last week?
He was so far up Livingstone’s arse he’d probably run into Peter Mandelson.
The whole of radio 5 is a disgrace. You have the screeching wanna be Polly Toynbee called Victoria Derbyshire, she really does put the smell in shit.
Then you do have Simon Mayo a man who has creeped around the edges of Nu Liebour.
“…Although the Rev Simon Mayo appears in the latest Chequers log, his Radio 5 Live colleague Nicky Campbell does not. Might this have something to do with his language?…”
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050214/ai_n9533083
Beeboids should NOT be allowed to be aligned with any political party.
Some parts of five live aren’t so bad . Up all night can be decent.
Generally speaking it starts of completely as unbearable in the morning/afternoon and slowly becomes better.
In fact i find it can be more willing to report the truth at times (or at least let others discuss it) than the likes of Radio 4 and any bbc tv channel.
They’ll occasionally touch subjects that the rest of the bbc totally censors without exception – e.g. Fathers’ Rights, male victims of domestic violence etc
On days when I am stuck in the car and R4 is broadcasting its usual diet of plays about Asian single mothers trying to come to terms with life in racist Britain, Classic FM is playing ‘classics from the movies’ and R3 is indulging in a Benjamin Britten orgy, I sometimes grit my teeth and endure Simon Mayo.
He is, in so many ways, what I hate most about the BBC – a smug, thirty-something, metrosexual, metropolitan Leftie, a product of the 1970s ‘Punk’ generation with an easy, facile, received Guardianista wisdom that, mea culpa makes me want to strangle him.
And then I heard Colin Murray.
This one sets new standards in almost every department – from his slavish kow-towing to drooling goons from ZaNuLabour, his appalling radio voice, his gurgling, babbling incomprehensibility, to his almost complete inability to ask a single intelligent question.
Mayo must have selected him personally. Never go on holiday leaving someone remotely capable in charge.
He picked the perfect stand-in. Has there ever been a more irritating, incompetent broadcaster?
Mayo a 30-something?
Here’s an update – he’ll be 50 this September.
There’s nothing worse than an aging lefty who still has the same naive world view they had when they were 21. I bet Mayo hasn’t evolved an inch since he was last on the cover of Smash Hits.
I’m reminded of a spoof Viz comic did of the life of “Simon Salad Cream”. I seem to remember quips-a-plenty about his face being lumpy.
Well he sounds like a 30-something.
And that is not a compliment.
If for nothing else – here’s a couple of reasons why everyone should hate Mayo
From wikepedia:
“Due to endless plays from Mayo, several unlikely hit singles reached the UK charts, including “Kinky Boots” by Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman; “Donald Where’s Yer Troosers” by Andy Stewart”
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghpo5GIKbR9wpM3HJYFKsTjrhysQ
The telling paragraph:
“In total, 639 people at a cost of £6,846,700 will attend, the majority BBC staff involved in the broadcaster’s coverage of the games. The newspaper reported that the BBC was spending £3 million and taking 437 staff to China.”
And yet it declined to bid for Test match cricket…
£6.8million for the games or £350million for the second-dullest televised game in the country (a little behind golf)?
Come on. You know full well that if the BBC had outbid Sky the comments on here would be a combination of “how DARE they spend £350million of MY money on that crappy sport”, and “how DARE they use licence fee money to shoulder out a commercial company who actually WORKS for a living”.
Of course, a highlight package would have been nice.
As for Mayo, I never listen – there are far better commercial stations for the afternoons — Heart, Real Radio, Virgin… they’re worth the adverts.
Ohhh dear, Jonas Armstrong is leaving Robin Hood.
Words fail me apart from he is jumping the sunk ship from this pathetic PC bilge.
I think when GCooper mentioned 30 something, he was talking about Mayo’s IQ.
DA:
The Beeb is spending £200 million over five years to broadcast formula 1 (number of UK participants: 3). The money goes to multi-billionaire Bernie Ecclestone.
Cricket has vastly more participants and commands higher ratings, but the Beeboids couldn’t be bothered even to make a bid.
I want a rebate on my licence fee.
Remember, ‘Devil’s Advocate’ is a transmit only troll.
I can’t stand that mock-outraged voice of Victoria Derbyshire. She is so stupid, as well.
The BBC were just about ‘given F1’ by Bernie.
I think F1 didn’t like the continual advert breaks by ITV.
The BBC could have got F1 a lot cheaper.
The problem with the BBC is that it thinks sports should be cheap.
Howver, the BBC thinks it’s own employees should be paid huge salaries.
Well, seeing as the BBC is staffed by in-touch-with-their-inner-woman metrosexuals (as well as ethnic minorities, liberal arts graduates and communists), and how a lot of their airtime is packed with lifestyle programs, maybe the orange jumpsuits are just as bad – if not worse – as commercial airliners full of people and fuel being flown into skyscrapers because orange doesn’t go with anything, or because it makes you look frumpy. It’s all relative.
Crap, wrong thread.
Anyone see Top Gear on Sunday?
Surely one of the best scenes ever broadcast by Al Beeb was when Jeremy walked his little car in to a board room, which had a person in a wheel chair, a dwarf, an Indian, a black woman, anorak wearing woman talking about global warming, and Mr Clarkson! 🙂
Probably a pretty close interpretation of all Al Been board room meetings 🙂
Mailman
mailman | 07.08.08 – 2:08 pm |
I’ve seen that episode. When was the last time you saw anything like that on one of the BBC’s actual comedy programmes? They must be eating their livers on the fourth floor over having to give Clarkson that Jonathan Ross-style new contract.
I actually want the sport version of that little car. It would be great for getting around my neighborhood.
I’m tempted to poke my nose in just to say I have never ever listened to 5 Live and don’t even know how to tune in. Also, I never intend to find out.
I once listened to talksport when someone I knew was on it, just for a minute, but won’t be going back.
Sorry to butt in on your thread.
Now I’m here, I’ll mention that I’m underwhelmed by the Olympics. Next, I do think Jeremy Clarkson says funny things, but being particularly unphotogenic he should be heard and not seen. I don’t understand why one would boast about acceleration or other car specs and stats and I don’t like his mother’s hideously cute Paddington bear, in the Greg Dyke sense, and I don’t want to read her cheering story in the newspapers. I don’t know what made me.
The board room thing sounds funny, but it’s just not enough to get me watching Top Gear.
Now going back to minding my own business.
The last of the recent Top Gear season was rather good, with Clarkson and co. flying in to meet their German counterparts for some kind of car-based challenge in Belgium.
What did they fly in? Three Spitfires! I could almost hear the nation’s Guardianistas rolling their eys and tut-tutting into their mocha latte’s…
And the Beeb’s top nobs must have been gritting their non-NHS Europhile teeth, having to show this…
Sutekh | 07.08.08 – 7:40 pm | #
I’d imagine they love it, given its ratings and the amount of revenue it brings in.
Sure you know best though.
Top Gear is successful for one simple reason (well 3 actually). It’a male orientated programme that is enjoyed by women as well.
I’m sick to death of camp, gay, metrosexual presenters mincing on about hair styles, clothes, food or curtains.
Top Gear is politically incorrect and who gives a shit? OK most of the BBC, who’d love to kill it (they don’t believe in man made climate change for staters, I wonder what Clarkson does with Harrabin’s emails?) were it not for the worldwide audience of 250 million and massive sales in DVD’s and the like.
Top Gear is not that expensive to do either.
Take two examples. The Polar expedition that they did (probably the best TV of the year). They were actually apporached by Toyota and it was funded by Toyota not the BBC.
There is a very good website for the expedition with some stunning photos here.
http://www.invinciblehilux.co.uk/
Take the space shuttle made from the Reliant Robin. They again were approached by the rocket people (who they’d worked with before)
The fact is the BBC know if they cancelled Top gear, Clarkson, Hammond and May would be snapped up by Sky or C4 in about 5 minutes.
But who would want Jonathan Ross?
Clarkson is a hoot.
I remember reading his “motoring” column in the Sunday Times magazine.
He finally got round to describing the car he was reviewing in the last 2 paras. Vintage Clarkson. His stock-in-trade is being non-PC. Brill.
Richard Lancaster:
Sutekh | 07.08.08 – 7:40 pm | #
I’d imagine they love it, given its ratings and the amount of revenue it brings in.
Sure you know best though.
Richard Lancaster | 07.08.08 – 8:15 pm
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No doubt it does, but I’d bet it grates having to actually produce populist programs like that.
Which you would have understood if you’d stopped demonstrating you’re a patronising prick…
You do have to laugh at Top Gear though. Their one armed soundman who ended up driving with Clarkson and then his false arm came off and was stuck on the steering wheel was a hoot!
I just wonder how many letters of complaint that got from leftie disabled groups?