Printer-friendly version
Author:
Taxonomy upgrade extras:
After her appearance on Midweek (BBC Radio4) a few weeks ago, she's now in Guardian Weekend - the Guardian's glossy magazine, with a far from flattering photo. Not quite sure what she hopes to achieve apart from explaining how she spent £60,000 on surgery - I'd want a spare body for that, still some of us have to succeed without facial surgery or voice training.
Judge for yourselves. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/24/experienc...
Angharad.
Comments
And others of us...
...wouldn't be attractive, even with piles of surgery. *sighs* You're right that the photo's not very flattering... She has nicer ones on her website.
bbc radio?
I was wondering if you could explain what the numbers of bbc radio mean and what types of programing each of them have. I've a plug-in for them in my vista media center but i'm clueless as to what i'm looking at. scthea
BBC Radio Channels
Your vest bet is to go to the BBC Radio Home Page, http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ where you will find better answers to your question than I could write hwere without spending about an hour on it.
I have BBC radio on most of the time (I don't have a TV) on either Radio 4 (serious speech including news, drama, etc), Radio 5 Live (rolling news, current affairs, phone-in chat etc.), Radio 3 (classical music and heavy drama—sometimes), or Radio 7 (on digital radio with repeats of classic BBC programmes from the sound archives—comedy, including The Goon Show, drama serials (such as Agatha Christie's and Dorothy L Sayers' thrillers) and many other delights. Radio 1 is for teen-type music and Radio 2 is mainly light music and popular chat.
Gabi
Gabi.
BBC Radio
Radio 1 - is a pop music channel directed at younger listeners (teens/early 20s) Don't know much about it.
Radio 2 - similar to Radio 1 except directed at an older audience. Some speech broadcasts but mostly music, pop, jazz and folk
Radio 3 - A lot of music here too but mostly classical and contemporary orchestral music. Also quite a lot of cultural and other 'serious' speech programmes too.
Radio 4 - This is the main speech channel. News, current affairs, plays, quizzes, comedy, weather forecasts etc
Radio 5 - also known as radio 5 live. Current affairs and sport
Radios 1 to 4 are broadcast mostly on FM 88 to 95 Mhz and are also available on-line. Radio 4 also broadcasts on LW on 198 khz band sometimes carries different programming than on FM - most specially Test Match Special covering the whole of 5 day cricket test matches :(
The only ones I'm really familiar with is Radios 3 and 4 becaue that's what I listen to most.
Geoff
As you say
There are better photos on her website - this pic does her no favours. I've heard a lot lately about her going on ad nauseam about her transition. I don't broadcast mine; but I don't lie either. I'm not as good looking but (a) I'm 63 and (b) I didn't have £60,000 to spend.
I'm just a pensioner who gets on with life. I'm happy with that. Yes; if the wrong wriggler hadn't hit the egg in 1945 I'd maybe be better off now. Or maybe I wouldn't. My clocks only go forwards so that's where I'll go.
Susie