It grates on the BBC that Northern Ireland is still British so it never misses the opportunity to pretend otherwise; A Biased BBC reader points out that they have watched a BBC programme entitled “Timothy Spall:Back at Sea.” Spall is travelling by barge all over the U.K and in the episode screened on 24th August on BBC 4 he sails from the Isle of Man into Bangor Marina. Bangor is located on the eastern coast of Northern Ireland. The BBC play “If you’re Irish, come into the parlour” as the theme, show a map of the island of Ireland with no border between ourselves and the republic and show the Irish Tricolour as the flag just below Bangor. You can see it for yourself on BBC iplayer, 17mins 40secs into episode 3. This is the sort of nonchalent anti-British bias the BBC delights in – casually thrown into a programme for no other reason but to suggest that we are Irish, not British.
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On the mainland George Best and Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins were never considered British. And you won’t find many British people in Wales and Scotland too. I think Ali G summed it perfectly when that guy said ‘I’m British’, he asked ‘Is you ere on holiday’.
Though the phrase ‘the north of Ireland’ rather than Northern Ireland really wind me up when used on the PC BBC.
Yes, that’s true re George Best and others because in England, Scotland and Wales in common parlance they tend to be lumped together as “Irish” whether they are from north or south.
At 18:30, Spall says that “We’re now in Northern Ireland, so we’ve done every nation in Britain…….”
Inform and educate?
Next week, Mark Lawson hosts a discussion in which Griff Rhys Jones, Stephen Fry, Caroline Quentin, Rory McGrath, Martin Clunes, Paul Merton, Rory McGrath, Michael Palin, Tamzin Outthwaite, Rory McGrath, Ross Kemp, Billy Connolly, Trevor MacDonald, Sue Johnston and Dara O’Briain will be asking why there aren’t nearly enough celebrity travel shows on TV.
…Timothy Spall had to be rescued by a lifeboat this week when he and his film crew got lost at sea.
The actor – who plays Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter films – is sailing round the British coast in the Princess Matilda barge for a BBC series Back at Sea.
But he called for help on Wednesday at 9.40pm when he and his four-strong film crew lost their way.
An RNLI rescuer got on board to help them after the Sheerness lifeboat crew tracked them down off Stangate Creek in the River Medway estuary.
According to The Sun, their 55ft Dutch barge was then escorted to safety at the Queenborough Harbour on the Isle of Sheppey.
Thanks for this Millie.
Wouldn`t you have thought that the BBC would have lost no excuse to blame the near-catastrophic loss of that one out of Auf Wiedersehen Pet on the cuts to the Leicester lighthouse by the landlubber Tories.
Hope the RNLI will be getting the BBC to cough up for wasting their time-and putting lives at risk with far more meaning to them than any Beeb ballast blagger.
Surprised that the BBC didn`t see the chance to make their own news…they always seem so willing to do so!
…or extremely dangerous conditions, probably magnified by climate change.
The BBC do have problems with maps… http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2011/08/chasing-bbc-for-response-to-very-fair.html
Spall did say Northern Ireland when he was pointing to the countries on the way to the Isle of man.
he does not strike me as your typical PC Beeboid.