Sarah Kennedy gets Œtired¹ transcript
Al Crawford
Friday's Guardian:
Heading: Sarah Kennedy gets rather 'tired' during her live Radio 2 show
Sub-heading: Radio 2 was flooded with complaints last week after DJ
Sarah Kennedy slurred her speech, laughed, rambled, missed cues and
accused a newsreader of soiling her underwear. A spokesman, denying
she'd been drinking, blamed tiredness. This is from the show ...
Sarah Kennedy: The gossip is, oh yeah, me with head of Radio 4, gob on a
stick ... I'm getting my act together. I have to be absolutely honest
with you, erm, I had a terrible night's sleep last night. A real, sort
of one of those waking up at 2 o'clock and there's no reason, there's no
reason for it [laughter] and various things have happened to the car ...
[Music cuts out] And why? See, exactly! You see, all this stuff
[equipment] has gone wrong as well ... Can you mow? Have you got a
mower? Hee, hee, hee. Weekend coming up. Could we do the lawn? ...
Fenella! Where is the old fool? Is she around? Oh, you're there. All the
equipment seems to be going a bit obscure today. Hold on. What was I
going to say ... You know when you had erm ... If you're listening, all
the dubries have gone pear-shaped ... Good morning, Fenella, me and
Beej, we're all up the shute! Oh Lord, shall we shoot each other? Get
the Lugar out of my knicker draw! I'm a bit limp this morning ...
[interrupts music] And that's Blondie ... I be dying a death ... Are you
priming yourself, Doris? [another presenter] You are a naughty woman, so
I've heard! How much do you cost? Did you say 'shunt'? You're a
mini-monster ... We've got problems in here. Ken Bruce the producer is
in. What have you got to say? Where is the old fool? I think they're
after my fruit mush ... Do we have a vicar amongst us? I still haven't
got over my little hots for Father Oliver yesterday. Such a gorgeous
man. And where the old [Rev] John Newbury is? Where are you, old prune?
(End of article)
As someone else commented, for this embarrassing incompetence and gross
unprofessionalism, SK gets a week's holiday.
Meanwhile, Johnnie Walker, never less than totally professional, is on
indefinite suspension ...
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Al Crawford
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Marcus Durham
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> Ken Bruce the producer is
>in. What have you got to say? Where is the old fool? I think they're
>after my fruit mush ... Do we have a vicar amongst us? I still haven't
>got over my little hots for Father Oliver yesterday. Such a gorgeous
>man. And where the old [Rev] John Newbury is? Where are you, old prune?
And they say Johnny Walker does drugs? A weeks holiday, I'd give her a
permanent holiday.
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Martin Palmer
forth, thus:
>For those, like me, who missed all the fun, here's what was printed in
>Friday's Guardian:
<snip funny article>
>As someone else commented, for this embarrassing incompetence and gross
>unprofessionalism, SK gets a week's holiday.
>
>Meanwhile, Johnnie Walker, never less than totally professional, is on
>indefinite suspension ...
Yep, t'were me - and I still can't believe she's not been sacked. In
any other profession, turning up pissed for work would get you your
P45, and quite rightly. Yet she is allowed to do her full show, and
then swans off for a 'rest', apparently with the good wishes of the
BBC, and meanwhile JW, who as you say has always been impeccable
on-air, languishes in limbo awaiting his fate.
Something Not Quite Right about all this.....
Martin Palmer
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Martin Palmer
<Mar...@zenn.demon.co.uk> gave forth, thus:
>In article <1dsmobg.1gn...@tnt-1-143.easynet.co.uk> Al Crawford
><a...@rock.com> shared the following with us in uk.media.radio.bbc-r2:
>[snip]
>> Ken Bruce the producer is
>>in. What have you got to say? Where is the old fool? I think they're
>>after my fruit mush ... Do we have a vicar amongst us? I still haven't
>>got over my little hots for Father Oliver yesterday. Such a gorgeous
>>man. And where the old [Rev] John Newbury is? Where are you, old prune?
>[snip]
>
>And they say Johnny Walker does drugs? A weeks holiday, I'd give her a
>permanent holiday.
And that's the condensed version, listening to it live it was even
weirder - giggling, rambling, slurred speech, stumbling over words, I
honestly wondered what she was coming out with next. Kinda compulsive
listening, though - if only in the hope she would drop a *really* big
one....
Andrew Bartie
Al Crawford <a...@rock.com> wrote in message
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>
> As someone else commented, for this embarrassing incompetence and gross
> unprofessionalism, SK gets a week's holiday.
>
> Meanwhile, Johnnie Walker, never less than totally professional, is on
> indefinite suspension ...
>
So doing something ILLEGAL and getting ARRESTED for it is totally
professional is it?
JW is lucky he wasn't instantly dismissed. It is in many employment
contracts that gross misconduct even outside work time
is a dismissable offence.
Andrew Bartie
Guernsey
john nicholson
> any other profession, turning up pissed for work would get you your
> P45, and quite rightly.
all for it meself and anyway what makes you think JW did any show sober? Not
much experience of alternative lifestyles have you?
Personally I think Sarah should be commended for her behaviour and its
pathetic that the BBC can't just say she had a few drinks. So what? There
are far worse things in the world than a boozed up DJ.
Marcus Durham
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uk.media.radio.bbc-r2:
[snip]
> giggling, rambling, slurred speech, stumbling over words, I
>honestly wondered what she was coming out with next.
Hang on, that's what she *normally* does!
Marcus Durham
<john.ni...@virgin.net> shared the following with us in
uk.media.radio.bbc-r2:
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>Being off yer face is no crime.
Neither is being Sarah Kennedy.... sadly.
Mike
> So doing something ILLEGAL and getting ARRESTED for it is totally
> professional is it?
>
> JW is lucky he wasn't instantly dismissed. It is in many employment
> contracts that gross misconduct even outside work time
> is a dismissable offence.
Innocent until proven guilty.
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Mike Brown
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Lindsay Endell
If she was boozed up at 7.30 in the morning, however, then she should
be in the same place as JW, having some kind of treatment...
Something unprofessional appears to have occurred, for both of these
presenters. However, what they may or may not have done did not
physically affect anyone else. Nobody died.
Linz
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Oh, not really a pedant, I wouldn't say.
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Martin Palmer
<john.ni...@virgin.net> gave forth, thus:
>> Yep, t'were me - and I still can't believe she's not been sacked. In
>> any other profession, turning up pissed for work would get you your
>> P45, and quite rightly.
>Aw grow up son and stop being a Nazi. Being off yer face is no crime. I'm
>all for it meself
Me too, as it happens. And I'll thank you not throw about the "nazi"
so freely. My point was the hypocrisy shown, re: JW's treatment v.
SK's. She was pissed (or doing a good impression) on the job. Whether
you like it or not, that's a sacking offence in many jobs. And I for
one am quite glad about that.
> and anyway what makes you think JW did any show sober?
What makes you think he didn't? Care to share some inner knowledge
with the rest of us?
> Not much experience of alternative lifestyles have you?
I'm sorry. Being a Radio 2 presenter is an "alternative lifestyle" is
it? Or are we just meant to think that you're a freewheeling
devil-may-care hedonist who eschews the bonds of normality and
convention - whilst posting to a Radio 2 newsgroup? Not exactly
displaying your own "alternative" credentials, really, eh?
>Personally I think Sarah should be commended for her behaviour and its
>pathetic that the BBC can't just say she had a few drinks. So what? There
>are far worse things in the world than a boozed up DJ.
Agreed. But a boozed-up Sarah Kennedy is something else again...Some
things should never even be imagined....
nestor...@my-deja.com
If nobody ever goes on air pissed where are we going to get the
hilarious "Fleet'sh Lit Up" broadcasts of the future ? (I'm assuming
everyone has heard Commander Whatisname commentating on the Naval Review
at Spithead in 1937 or thereabouts while completely out of his skull.
At one point he falls over and shouts "It's vanished.. the whole
fleet'sh dishappeared!").
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john nicholson
> displaying your own "alternative" credentials, really, eh?
Sir, I'm sitting here in a pantomime horse suit , smoking banana skins and
singing songs from The Incredible String Bands back catalogue . I assumed
this made me unusual to some degree but apparently everyone's at it these
days.
Sorry about the 'nazi' - it was uncalled for.
Martin Palmer
<john.ni...@virgin.net> gave forth, thus:
>
>> displaying your own "alternative" credentials, really, eh?
>
>Sir, I'm sitting here in a pantomime horse suit , smoking banana skins and
>singing songs from The Incredible String Bands back catalogue . I assumed
>this made me unusual to some degree but apparently everyone's at it these
>days.
You *are* sir _henry@rawlinson_end, and I claim my £5...
>Sorry about the 'nazi' - it was uncalled for.
'Reactionary old git' would have done :o)
Alfred W. Barnett
<us...@rubbish.palmerco.u-net.com> writes
words were not to the accepted formula. Therefore I cannot dispense your
£5
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Stephen Burke
> Innocent until proven guilty.
Unless the story is in the News of the World, it seems.
Stephen Burke
Martin Palmer
gave forth, thus:
>In article <3752684F...@mb21.co.uk>, Mike <mi...@mb21.co.uk> writes:
>> Innocent until proven guilty.
>
>Unless the story is in the News of the World, it seems.
Did anyone see the article in the Guardian by Dawn Alford, the
journalist who 'honeytrapped' the Straw boy? In an article titled "The
Myth of the Honeytrap", she was stoutly defending the exposure of
Dallaglio, Straw, Walker, et al, as being in the public interest, and
comparing those stories to the exposure of 'Cash for questions', and
the Aitken affair, etc. Talk about having an inflated idea of your own
importance!
The funniest thing though, was her insistance that she was being
victimised by the broadsheets for being an attractive young woman,
which would not have happened if she was a bloke, and that this fact
had no bearing at all on her part in any of these stings - as if her
and her (similiarly endowed) colleague could have chatted up Straw (on
the implied promise of nookie to come), if they had been burly bearded
hacks!
Sue
Martin Palmer <us...@rubbish.palmerco.u-net.com> wrote in message
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> - as if her
> and her (similiarly endowed) colleague could have chatted up Straw (on
> the implied promise of nookie to come), if they had been burly bearded
> hacks!
You never know. Each to their own, and all that.
Sue.
Martin Palmer
forth, thus:
Oh, true enough. But you can bet your bottom dollar that if Master
Straw was, let's say, batting for the other side, they'd have sent in
a nice boy instead, and then splashed "STRAW SON'S GAY DRUGS SHAME"
all over the front page instead. They may be scum, but they're not
daft...
John Nuttall
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Sue wrote in message <7jepkv$4vk$1...@nclient5-gui.server.virgin.net>...
>
>Martin Palmer <us...@rubbish.palmerco.u-net.com> wrote in message
>news:375a6c30...@news.u-net.com...
>> - as if her
>> and her (similiarly endowed) colleague could have chatted up Straw (on
>> the implied promise of nookie to come), if they had been burly bearded
>> hacks!
>
>You never know. Each to their own, and all that.
>
>Sue.
>
>
Martin Palmer
<jo...@jwnuttall.freeserve.co.uk> gave forth, thus:
>Are you by any chance "A Boy Named SUE" (Johnny Cash)?!!!!!
Er? Either I'm missing an obvious joke here, or you're getting your
attributions in a twist...