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Post by Patrick on Dec 30, 2010 10:55:21 GMT
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Post by Weyland on Dec 30, 2010 11:39:58 GMT
Yes -- yesterday's effort was childish drivel. I'd never heard of S T-W in any case. Today's Today was good, but only the Ingrams bits. Evan Davis and Sarah Montague aren't fit to be understudies on TeleTubbies, never mind Today. Her talents are jabbering, gibbering, winnying, and cackling, with the occasional giggle or snork, and Davis specialises in mumbling and pressing interviewees. Pressing as in raising the volume of his mumbling a bit. I was surprised to hear Corrie Corfield sounding quite pleasant. Her usual R4 manner of speaking is most peculiar: she seems to continually slice words in the wrong places, as in Corrie Corfiel dlice sword sin allth ewrong places. Don't get me started on Libby Purves and Fee Glavver. Not to mention Nick Hornby and Robert Peston.
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Post by Patrick on Dec 30, 2010 12:38:36 GMT
Taylor Wood is another one famous for being famous really. Turner Prize and all that, 'nuff said.
It was not until she pointed it out that I noticed Ms Corfield does sound like that! I've just grown used to her though probably as one of the archetypal Radio 4 voices these days. Certainly agree about Evan and Sarah. I had hoped that Gregg Wood might got the Today post instead - a far better business reporter with more gravitas then Davies.
I quite like Alistair Yates on the BBC News Channel - he has a voice that was born to be on the BBC. Though he started with them, he was on Sky News for years.
They also mentioned complaints about Neil Nunes when he turned up on Radio 4. I don't mind him - mid Atlantic twang aside - his voice is as warm as an Ekco radiogram.
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Post by Weyland on Dec 30, 2010 15:49:30 GMT
They also mentioned complaints about Neil Nunes when he turned up on Radio 4. I don't mind him - mid Atlantic twang aside - his voice is as warm as an Ekco radiogram. They kept mispronouncing his name to rhyme with prunes. It's noo-ness, according to himself. He has a great voice, and I don't mind the accent, but he doesn't have the appropriate delivery. Up and down and too sort of light-hearted for R4, IMO. And he clearly doesn't have the native memory and understanding of ancient and still-running R4 features. How could he?
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Post by everso on Dec 30, 2010 17:20:45 GMT
I don't generally have much of a problem with anyone's voice on radio, with one exception: Robert Peston.
It's not the sound of his voice, which is o.k., but the stupid way he drawls. You can always tell when he's reading from a script because he sounds normal, but when he's put on the spot he sounds like a complete arse. He also gives a silly giggle in the most inappropriate places.
Twerp.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 30, 2010 19:22:45 GMT
I don't think that's entirely fair. She did a film about John Lennon's youth that was quite well regarded (I haven't seen it as I don't care for Lennon, but still...).
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Post by Patrick on Dec 30, 2010 22:48:46 GMT
I don't think that's entirely fair. She did a film about John Lennon's youth that was quite well regarded (I haven't seen it as I don't care for Lennon, but still...). I saw the Turner exhibition that hers was in. I think it was film work, thought I can't actually remember - which says something. There are lots I can though - Quite a fun one where you had to climb through a hole in the wall as if you were inside the walls of a house. The giant Tellytubby coloured circles you were allowed to climb on that had a heart beat thudding through them. That fellow's Elephant Dung pictures. The Thingy Twin's take on the German Battle Fields. It's nice when something makes an impression. I'm not really a Lennon fan so a film about him didn't impress either!
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Post by jean on Dec 31, 2010 9:22:09 GMT
Sam Taylor-Wood is a friend of Tracey Emin's.
When I try to think of her work, I find I usually mix her up with Sarah Lucas (who is also a friend of Tracey Emin'sl) whose work I really do find memorable.
Nobody does fried eggs as sexual imagery better than she does.
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Post by everso on Dec 31, 2010 9:37:18 GMT
Sam Taylor-Wood is a friend of Tracey Emin's. When I try to think of her work, I find I usually mix her up with Sarah Lucas (who is also a friend of Tracey Emin'sl) whose work I really do find memorable. Nobody does fried eggs as sexual imagery better than she does. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2011 22:58:41 GMT
Sam Taylor-Wood is a friend of Tracey Emin's. When I try to think of her work, I find I usually mix her up with Sarah Lucas (who is also a friend of Tracey Emin'sl) whose work I really do find memorable. Nobody does fried eggs as sexual imagery better than she does. ;D . ??
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Post by jean on Jan 7, 2011 23:08:22 GMT
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Post by everso on Jan 8, 2011 0:48:31 GMT
. ?? You're not a woman ARF, you wouldn't understand.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 8, 2011 10:18:54 GMT
Are they by any chance related?
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Post by rjpageuk on Jan 8, 2011 12:08:51 GMT
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Post by everso on Jan 8, 2011 14:13:54 GMT
Tsk! Honestly. You men.
Oh, hold on. I thought it was Rob's picture leering at the naked table woman.
I didn't read the bit at the bottom.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 8, 2011 14:30:58 GMT
I didn't read the bit at the bottom. You're not a man, Ev. You wouldn't.
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Post by everso on Jan 8, 2011 15:54:48 GMT
I didn't read the bit at the bottom. You're not a man, Ev. You wouldn't. Har har.
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