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Bernadette Angell takes exception to Fox criticism on BBC

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Bernadette Angell in Arts, Television / Radio, What's Hot // 0 Comments

Listening to the excellent radio 4 arts programme Saturday Review, I was rather shocked at Deborah Moggach’s side swipe at FOX as hideous. My American broadcasting friends are appalled by the BBC Jimmy Savile cover up. If it was a a shareholding company like Fox it would be sued to pieces. I sometimes wonder if BBC policy is determined by what might be acceptable at an Islington dinner party . As for Deborah Moggach, her novel Heartbreak Hotel was one of the worst I have read this year. If you want a much wittier better written insight into superannuated sex I suggest you read Meg Wollitzer ‘s The Wife.

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

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