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Lady Boil De Spudswell
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 429 Location: Location, Location
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject: The Queen Is Dead, Long Live The New Queen (Or King!?!) |
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So, Dame Lesley is gorn, but who will replace her? Place your bets here, folks!
Personally I wouldn't mind seeing either Matthew Bannister or BBC London's David Robey given a crack - the best way of ensuring a slot for Mr. Baker is still in the offing!
Have to say I agree with Gambo. Brand was a time bomb and Douglas's love of him cost her her career.
Some think Baker a bit of a loose cannon but he's like D. Jacobs in comparison.
Baker mentioned on-air on Tuesday that R2 had invited him to an 'urgent' meeting. Now, this might be another of Baker's infamous leg-pulls, however could it possibly have been La Douglas getting her last will and testament in order before she jumped? After all there was no secret in the fact she is a DB fan and had tried several times - unsuccessfully - to sign Baker, most recently as a stand-in to 6Music Breakfast Show host Sean Keaveny. Interesting... Ross's 12 week suspension relief perhaps?
Brand was always a liability and, from the shows I heard complete with talk of genitalia etc, not exactly groom-able to a more mainstream slot so I couldn't see why Douglas was so desperate to shift him from 6 to such a lowly slot on 2? It's wasn't as if he could be put anywhere else on the network.
Oh, and by the way, his producer. 25 did I read?! I've got older socks!! No wonder it all went pear-shaped! _________________ Who Can Take A Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Dew... |
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Mark Lucas Guest
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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Bob Shennan. |
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Lady Boil De Spudswell
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 429 Location: Location, Location
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Mark Lucas wrote: | Bob Shennan. |
..who I think hired Baker to front Radio 5's Breakfast Show - Morning Edition, no?! Gets my vote! _________________ Who Can Take A Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Dew... |
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Mark Lucas Guest
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Lady Boil De Spudswell wrote: | Mark Lucas wrote: | Bob Shennan. |
..who I think hired Baker to front Radio 5's Breakfast Show - Morning Edition, no?! Gets my vote! |
Indeed he did, which would be an added bonus for Radio 2!
Perhaps Danny Baker will be used as a stand-in for Jonathan Ross? |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3611 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Lady Boil De Spudswell wrote: | Mark Lucas wrote: | Bob Shennan. |
..who I think hired Baker to front Radio 5's Breakfast Show - Morning Edition, no?! Gets my vote! |
Except he also fired Baker from 5Live, didn't he? And Baker wasn't allowed back on that station until Shennan had left. |
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Clive55
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Paul Gambuccini would be the best choice
he seems to have his head screwed on |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Mark Thompson said he wont rule out the return of Lesely Douglas. Maybe not Radio 2? I thought she was going to be moving into Television? |
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MadeinSurrey
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: The Beautiful South
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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She would be best suited to working on the dodgems! _________________ MiS |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: There'll be no teardrops tonight.... |
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Before this furore, I read that Lesley Douglas was being lined up to head the 'Radio Academy.' |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Anybody BUT Matthew Bannister Radio 1 STILL hasn't recovered _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:20 am Post subject: |
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mark occomore wrote: | Mark Thompson said he wont rule out the return of Lesely Douglas. Maybe not Radio 2? I thought she was going to be moving into Television? |
Seeing as how she was so in thrall of it, Perhaps her TV job should be in charge of Big Brother. She should stay away from radio, save perhaps for a tin-pot ILR station. _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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Number Six
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 439 Location: In the village
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I thought I read somewhere that she was moving to BBC4 . _________________ I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. |
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