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This Tuesday coming one of the directors is appearing on the Jeremy Vine show to answer questions from listeners about the BBC regarding things like money being spent and dumbing down etc.
I will be listening but maybe some people from here could e-mail and text regarding the BBCs atitude towards racing and ask them if they want to show more or just give it all up and be done with it.
Radio 2 – how bourgeois
Have to say, though, the attraction of this forum (for me, and perhaps many others?) is that the denizens are mainly intelligent, thinking people capable of constructing a decent argument.
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I just wiki’d Norrie.
Sounded like a talented chap…until it mentioned:
"In 1968, he was the Musical Director for the Eurovision Song Contest, staged at the Royal Albert Hall, the first to be broadcast in colour. He also conducted the UK entry, Congratulations, performed by Cliff Richard"
*Barf*
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I would like to know how they justify paying £200m to show the tacky, boring, laughable, nerds "sport" that is formula one
I’d suggest that it’s in no small part down to the fact that that ‘sport’ has a young, black, highly marketable British lad who last year came within a baw’ hair of being the World Champion at the first time of asking. Perhaps if racing found a similar competitor to champion the Beeb would shell out to perhaps show a bit more.
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I suppose that the irony of having Jeremy Vine discussing dumbing down will be lost to those at the Beeb who have been backing him for years.
I agree wholeheartedly that Forumla 1 gives paint drying a bad name.
I would add golf to that too. Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuull.
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I’d suggest that it’s in no small part down to the fact that that ‘sport’ has a young, black, highly marketable British lad
I’m not sure I’d be inclined to go down the race route here, truth be told. After all, how black is the not too dissimilarly-lauded Andy Murray?
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i think the BBC is more for the intellect.and horse racing does not come into that. except ascot. for the snobs.you can talk to the BBC till the cows come home your just wasting your breath.they have better things to do with our money.just wish they tell us on what thought
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i think the BBC is more for the intellect.and horse racing does not come into that.
Horse racing is more "intellectual" than Formula One or golf could ever be. It’s simply that, for the vast majority of people, horses are anachronistic. Gone are the days when everyone needed horses to get around; nowadays it’s all about cars, hence the popularity of motor sports.
I’m not sure I’d be inclined to go down the race route here, truth be told. After all, how black is the not too dissimilarly-lauded Andy Murray?
I chose to include his race because UIVMM he’s F1’s first black participant, GC. In tennis, Ashe broke through that barrier 40 years ago.
…he’s F1’s first black participant, GC. In tennis, Ashe broke through that barrier 40 years ago.
In tennis, the barrier was actually broken by Althea Gibson over 50 years ago.
Jeez. Is it really that long since her and Donna were at the top of the charts with "Uptown Top Ranking"?
How time flies.
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