Terry on TV - The One Show
Raymond Daley
Taxes).
BBC1 at 7pm (I think)
Richard Eney
Any reports?
=Tamar
André Coutanche
> Raymond Daley <raymon...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>Terry is on tonight talking about something (hopefully Nation or
>>raising Taxes).
>>BBC1 at 7pm (I think)
>
> Any reports?
Not yet, not without a time machine ;-) . It's tonight - Thursday 15
May (thanks, Raymond, for the tip-off).
According to the show's website at
www.bbc.co.uk/theoneshow/thisweek/2008/12052008.shtml#sub4 ,
"Lucy Siegle meets 53-year-old Heather Roberts who's got early onset
Alzheimer's, and speaks to a clinical psychologist who specialises in
dementia." So presumably Terry will be referred to in this context.
(I suspect I'll personally be more interested in "Miranda
Krestovnikoff travels to the island of Flat Holm in the middle of the
Bristol Channel to discover more about Britain's most elusive
reptile - the slow worm." ;-) ).
André Coutanche
André Coutanche
> Okay, the time machine having done its job :D, how about a
> report?
:-) Terry was there apropos Alzheimers, and he was the studio (couch)
guest, so he was there for the duration of the show and got to handle
one of Miranda Krestovnikoff's slow worms ...
The main reason for his presence was so that:
(a) the presenters could come out with the out-of-date factoid about
him being the most shop-lifted author in Britain (Terry's response:
"Can you prove it?");
(b) Terry could comment on a well-made report of a lady with
early-onset Alzheimers and the presenters could ask him searching
questions like "How did it feel?".
(c) He could make the odd bon mot during the rest of show, remarking
in a matter-of-fact way that he had slow worms in his garden.
An average show (is it live? it felt it from the odd glitch), with
Terry doing an average (for him, i.e. pretty good) job.
André Coutanche
Daibhid Ceanaideach
The bit that stuck in my mind, unfortunately, was the presenter asking
Pterry what the most unusual species he'd created was... and sat with
ill-concealed impatience through Pterry's explanation of the Pazuma,
having clearly only asked the question for the sake of a link to slow-
worms that didn't really work (maybe he was hoping he'd say swamp
dragons)...
(Oh, the same presenter also guessed that Pterry might have difficulty
writing a memoir because he was used to making things up. My Mum arrived
home at that point, so I missed if Pterry's reply was "I trained as a
journalist, you silly man.")
--
Dave
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And the name of him who sat on it was Death.
And the name of the horse was Binky.
Len Oil
> On 16 May 2008, "André Coutanche" <and...@andrec.plus.com> wrote:
>> An average show (is it live? it felt it from the odd glitch), with
>> Terry doing an average (for him, i.e. pretty good) job.
>
> The bit that stuck in my mind, unfortunately, was the presenter asking
> Pterry what the most unusual species he'd created was... and sat with
> ill-concealed impatience through Pterry's explanation of the Pazuma,
I knew there was another message wondering about it. I put part 1 (i.e.
not completed, last night) of a slightly (not enough!) abbreviated
transcript of the event on AFP, if you have a look for a thread there
with a similar title to this.
The One Show is indeed live, and you /can/ see the joins and the less
than perfect attempts to segway. But it's an enjoyable banter.
(Terry's very first words (upon being introduced by a statement
featuring two uses of the word "fantastical") were a bemusedly-toned
"Thank you". And you could almost sense the voice from the control
gallery telling the presenters "quick, get to the pre-filmed item about
<foo>!" and sending them down their variably-efficient attempts to
switch subjects and/or moods.)
On the whole, I like The One Show, for the variety of things it presents
(last night, biographies, Alzheimers, slow-worms, plastics and such made
from potato starch), but it does seem to be rather scrunched up into its
half-hour timeslot.
The best item of information I noticed was that TCOM footage was
subtitled as being released (presumably on DVD) November 2008.
Richard Eney
Len Oil <len...@lenoil.demon.co.uk> wrote:
<snip>
>
>The best item of information I noticed was that TCOM footage was
>subtitled as being released (presumably on DVD) November 2008.
Whee!
=Tamar
esmi
<snip>
> (Oh, the same presenter also guessed that Pterry might have difficulty
> writing a memoir because he was used to making things up. My Mum arrived
> home at that point, so I missed if Pterry's reply was "I trained as a
> journalist, you silly man.")
Now was that the point where Terry said that he wasn't interested in
writing his memoirs because he was too busy living them?
--
esmi
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