I thought the Jo Abbess email to Richard Black would be the funniest BBC-related correspondence I’d read for a long while, but I was wrong.
Many thanks to Peter Dow, the Scottish republican featured in the film I posted here yesterday, for drawing my attention to an email exchange he had with the BBC. I particularly love this bit, which reads like something straight out of Ted L Nancy :
I have had only 10 minutes on TV in my whole life. I am now 48 years old so that works out as an average of 12.5 seconds per year for each year of my life.
Now that is more than many others get on TV but compare my 12.5 seconds per year average to the average time which the Queen gets per year or Prince Charles or any other member of the royal family.
The royals get a greatly disproportionate amount of time on TV.