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About Bernadette Angell

After cutting her journalistic teeth in Boston USA, Bernadette met and married an Englishman, whom she followed back to London. Two decades and three children later, they divorced. She now occupies herself as a freelance writer (credits include television soaps and radio plays) and occasional amateur gardener. More Posts

Sue MacGregor and The Reunion

Following on from yesterday ‘s piece by Tom Hollingworth on the relative abilities of female presenters I would like to champion Sue MacGregor, in my opinion the best female broadcaster ever. She cut her teeth on the Today programme. She is so versatile that she presented the book programme A [...]

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Nick

The Nick is a fly on the wall documentary on Brighton police. The problem, like all fly on the walls, is the filmed never quite behave as naturally as they would otherwise. They are aware of – and in some cases perform to – the camera. I have heard it said that after a while they forget [...]

September 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Trials of Jimmy Rose

Superannuated actors are having a field day: Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay in 45 days, Bill Nighy in everything and anything and now Ray Winstone in The Trials of Jimmy Rose, ITV’s latest effort for the Sunday evening audience. It dealt in too many cliches, it was edgy but not [...]

August 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sugar daddy, sugar baby

Last night radio 4 broadcast two programmes on relationships of a revealing nature.The first was called Sugar Daddy, Sugar Baby and was about young female students who utilise websites to find a sugar daddy to finance their studies. It was an interesting programme though I wondered if it was a [...]

June 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Professionals

A month or so ago I was watching some programme on ITV4 on Saturday evening. The following morning I woke up early as is my wont and switched on the telly.  ITV 4 was showing The Professionals and I rapidly became absorbed. Where possible I now watch it from  6.30/7.30 every Sunday morning. It [...]

June 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

The special relationship : is it?

A radio programme I always enjoy is Great Lives presented by Matthew Parris. The format is someone advocates a person as a great life and an expert adds to the background. This week the great  life was the US war time ambassador Gil Winant. He is less remembered than his predecessor Joe Kennedy [...]

May 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Voice

I was speaking to Daphne Colthard the other day on how critics tend to avoid the lowbrow. She said she went to Jimmy’s an all-you-can-eat-buffet of Chinese, Japanese ,Mexican and Italian dishes for under £10 but as a freelancer it was unlikely that any magazine or paper would be  interested [...]

March 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Face to Face

Last week I observed that Jeremy Paxman’s complaint that Winston Churchill was a giant compared to today’s miniatures applies just as well to broadcasters. Perhaps mindful of this a friend kindly sent me a dvd compilation of the 39 interviews presented by John Freeman in the famous Face [...]

February 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Foyle’s War

The  weekend before last I had an actresss friend to stay. On the Sunday evening she recommended for watching Foyle’s War. She said the period just after World War Two had been successfully recreated. I was hooked. The following  Sunday I watched the two hour final programme in the series [...]

January 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Emil Zatopek

Yesterday in the radio 4 programme Great Lives presented by Matthew Parris, Arthur Smith advocated Emil Zatopek. To those that do not know, Emil Zatopek (1922-2000) was one of one of the greatest middle distance runners of all time, certainly in terms of records. He set 18 world records between 5k [...]

December 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

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