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Post by betty on Mar 8, 2010 0:15:15 GMT
most thinking persons find it hard to stomach his Something Understood program. i only find myself forced to listen to it when i have a particularly late bath..... the man needs shaking. this week's offering..... Mark Tully explores the conflict between loyalty and betrayal.call me old fashioned, but i don't want to be lectured on the subject of loyalty and betrayal by a man who thinks it just fine to have a wife in one continent and a mistress in another....and who says they love it. mr bets was listening too - and his reaction was just the same as silly ol' bets' Mark Tully is ethically dubious, imho. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2010 2:12:36 GMT
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Post by trubble on Mar 8, 2010 9:20:11 GMT
call me old fashioned, but i don't want to be lectured on the subject of loyalty and betrayal by a man who thinks it just fine to have a wife in one continent and a mistress in another....and who says they love it. mr bets was listening too - and his reaction was just the same as silly ol' bets' Mark Tully is ethically dubious, imho. You'll have to explain this to me, Bets. A quick google let's me believe that he lives with his long term partner in Delhi and stays with his (ex?)wife when in London. Is that not so? That doesn't sound that ethically dubious at all. |
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Post by Patrick on Mar 8, 2010 9:52:44 GMT
I've tried to like Mr Tully, he does after all, make pretty good radio, but rather like Fergal Keane he does seem a bit full of himself.
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Post by betty on Mar 8, 2010 11:08:11 GMT
call me old fashioned, but i don't want to be lectured on the subject of loyalty and betrayal by a man who thinks it just fine to have a wife in one continent and a mistress in another....and who says they love it. mr bets was listening too - and his reaction was just the same as silly ol' bets' Mark Tully is ethically dubious, imho. You'll have to explain this to me, Bets. A quick google let's me believe that he lives with his long term partner in Delhi and stays with his (ex?)wife when in London. Is that not so? That doesn't sound that ethically dubious at all. some years ago mr bets and i heard him being interviewed and it seemed clear to us that he was running the two wimmin in tandem - he was very smug about it. we went right off him. |
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Post by Weyland on Mar 8, 2010 11:15:37 GMT
Unbearable. It's one of the few programmes that cause me to retune the instant I hear his voice. It's the worst thing about Sundays. (Fee Glavver triggers the same reflex.) And yet that programme can be excellent when he's not presenting it, as happens sometimes. Same with Saturday Live. But I'm always ready on the channel button. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2010 12:13:39 GMT
i miss Going Live, with Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene. And of course, Gordon.
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Post by jean on Mar 9, 2010 14:22:15 GMT
He only gets away with it (the programme, thst is, not his domestic arrangements) because he was once very big indeed in the World Service.
IMHO, naturally.
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Post by betty on Mar 9, 2010 14:49:51 GMT
He only gets away with it (the programme, thst is, not his domestic arrangements) because he was once very big indeed in the World Service. IMHO, naturally. yes indeed. some years ago i was offered (by mutual WS chums, not Sir! Mark himself) a billet at his gaffe on the sub-continent. suffice to say, i have not visited India yet, and have no plans to do so. |
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Post by Weyland on Mar 9, 2010 14:54:42 GMT
He only gets away with it (the programme, thst is, not his domestic arrangements) because he was once very big indeed in the World Service. Right. He was a reasonable reporter on R4 as well, though Bob Jobbins was much better. Now he's a self-satisfied pompous smarmy git who thinks he's a wise old guru. IMO. |
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Post by betty on Mar 9, 2010 14:59:16 GMT
he's a self-satisfied pompous smarmy git who thinks he's a wise old guru. IMO. what a way with words you have! - why not apply to replace Tully and Glover? in these hardpressed times, two for the price of one should be welcomed as a valuable bogoff  |
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Post by Weyland on Mar 9, 2010 15:16:45 GMT
what a way with words you have! - why not apply to replace Tully and Glover? in these hardpressed times, two for the price of one should be welcomed as a valuable bogoff Blush. Praise indeed from Mrs Boop. This time I am lost for words. |
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Post by Patrick on Mar 9, 2010 15:52:42 GMT
I once had an interview at the World Service. The chap doing it asked me how I would handle the customer/journalists who would be coming to pick up equipment from me (it was a bit like being a librarian but with broadcasting bits and pieces) some of whom wouldn't have English as their first language. I explained how you could go about that in textbook style - but sadly the answer he wanted to hear was that I had the ability to shout loudly in English at them. He was a very funny man.
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Post by Weyland on Mar 9, 2010 16:45:51 GMT
I once had an interview at the World Service. The chap doing it asked me how I would handle the customer/journalists who would be coming to pick up equipment from me (it was a bit like being a librarian but with broadcasting bits and pieces) some of whom wouldn't have English as their first language. I explained how you could go about that in textbook style - but sadly the answer he wanted to hear was that I had the ability to shout loudly in English at them. He was a very funny man. I'm intrigued, Patrick. How did he convey the "shout loudly in English" thing to you? It wasn't Mr Tully, was it? |
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Post by betty on Mar 9, 2010 19:48:54 GMT
surely Mr Tully would never shout!
heaven forfend!
he'd more likely thrum in honeyed tones and offer you a bed should you ever find yourself lonely under indian skies.
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Post by Patrick on Mar 9, 2010 21:22:55 GMT
I once had an interview at the World Service. The chap doing it asked me how I would handle the customer/journalists who would be coming to pick up equipment from me (it was a bit like being a librarian but with broadcasting bits and pieces) some of whom wouldn't have English as their first language. I explained how you could go about that in textbook style - but sadly the answer he wanted to hear was that I had the ability to shout loudly in English at them. He was a very funny man. I'm intrigued, Patrick. How did he convey the "shout loudly in English" thing to you? It wasn't Mr Tully, was it? I have no idea now (it was ten years ago) something he said implied it, and when I mentioned it to a friend who worked there, afterwards, she said that what he probably meant. |
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