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James Naughtie
He presented a recording of Book Club this evening and had a chat with us afterwards. The Sliding Scotsman was explaining a slight limp: "I've just got back from a weekend's skiing, and really felt it!"
Apparently it's an annual getaway for about ten Today Programme people, and this year they were in Avoriaz. "The snow was pretty heavy low down" he complained.
The Book Club edition was an interesting one - a question-and-answer session with journalist Asne Seierstad, author of 'The Bookseller of Kabul', the controversial portrait of a family's life in modern-day Afghanistan [probably won't be broadcast until August].
I daresay Asne Seierstad is a skier too - she's Norwegian!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Imagine going through school with a surname like Naughtie.
David Goldsmith, thanks. Incredibly interesting.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Bode Swiller,
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Who said 'care in the community' is a failed Tory policy
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Did you get to play Mornington Crescent afterwards
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Thank you. I'll answer those points in turn:
stewart woodward,
James Naughtie is one of the great broadcast journalists of our time. You can listen to the Today Programme (3 hours of agenda-leading news coverage each morning) anytime on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain
Masque, you cannot be serious. Me or Naughtie? Or both of us?
Swiller, yes, imagine going through school with a name like Swiller
thefatcontroller, probably Margaret Thatcher, who believes "there's no such thing as society"
boredsurfin, good question! No, unfortunately, but we were on The Aldwych (Bush House) ... a kind of double-black-diamond version of Mornington Crescent
Anyone got any skiing questions for James Naughtie? [I'm not going to ask them]
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David Goldsmith wrote: |
James Naughtie is one of the great broadcast journalists of our time. |
If that's true, and I fear that it may be, it doesn't say much for the state of broadcast journalism today, does it? He's not what you'd call an incisive critical mind. Bring back Charles Wheeler, I say.
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Anyone got any skiing questions for James Naughtie?
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Yes, does he subscribe to SkiTV?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Sure, James Naughtie isn't Jonathan Ross (heard of him, and his salary of millions?) or Fiona Bruce (seen her on Crimewatch? Too late now). The fact that he's not on the box much (I think he still presents the Proms at the Albert Hall) doesn't mean he doesn't exist.
I'm not James Naughtie's PR, but he's an astonishingly knowledgeable and ethical journalist/interviewer ... and a bit of a ski enthusiast!
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David Goldsmith wrote: |
I'm not James Naughtie's PR, but he's an astonishingly knowledgeable and ethical journalist/interviewer ... and a bit of a ski enthusiast! |
I still feel compelled to say 'Knockty Boy!' every time he comes on the radio.
As for Charles Wheeler -very big hair for an old one.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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laundryman wrote: |
The Today programme co-hosted by Naughtie and Clarkson would be compelling. |
Yes, it would compel me to go to the pub. Two people far too fond of the sound of their own voices, a disadvantage in an interviewer, and so far up their own bums that an extra long boom mike is required to hear them at all.
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Poster: A snowHead
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richmond wrote: |
Yes, it would compel me to go to the pub. |
At 6.30am, that would be impressive compulsion!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Goldsmith wrote: |
The fact that he's not on the box much (I think he still presents the Proms at the Albert Hall) doesn't mean he doesn't exist.
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Good old Margaret Hodge!!!! Dontcha just love her ? All those dreary young conservatives a-singin and a-flag wavin and making fools of themselves and the country.
Just who does Margaret Hodge think she is!!! Attacking one of our great institutions, the envy of the world. Nothing can beat the great sing song of the Last Night of The Proms Since when do we need lessons in Britishness from an Egyptian Jew ? Bodge off !!!! You are a complete loser!!!!!
Glendella Slagson
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Latchigo, a suitable punishment would be to make Margaret Hodge go to the LNoftP. It would serve all present right.
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Margaret Hodge needs a career change. In fact she needed a career change about 15 years ago, after that childcare scandal in Islington she never dealt with properly (instead she furiously attacked a journalist who was quite legitimately investigating it).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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P.S. [rushing to keep this on-topic] Margaret Hodge is a skier
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David Goldsmith, Breaking News. That's amazing. Hold the front page.
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