queen mother 'joke'
So at the end of the programme there was an email about a line from a best man's speech which included a gag about the Queen Mother - it was one of those moments when I saw an offensive thing coming and I didn't manage to shut my mouth in time.
If i had been listening at home i would have found it highly offensive so I post this to you as an apology if you shared this feeling with me. The joys of live radio aren't always joyous and next time i'll try and keep mind and mouth in conjunction with each other.
sorry, sorry ,sorry
hope you still have a lovely weekend
fi
Your comment on Women fishing brought to mind the story of a lady fishing in the water on the River Tay. Suddenly she noticed the Queen Mother on the opposite bank. Forgetting where she was she curtsied and shipped in her boots vast amounts of the River Tay.
Complain about this postThis is a true story!
I missed that joke. Just so that I can tell whether I would have been offended, may I hear/read it again? Please?
Chris
Complain about this postWonderful to get Saturday morning back with an inteligent, wity, but interesting programme. Pity about the QM joke, but Fi's fun and humour is worth the odd slip
Complain about this postGreat show. Makes my Saturday morning.
Keep up the good work.
Complain about this postOh for goodness sake Fi, relax. Have you heard what Humph gets away with on Sorry I haven't a clue?
Complain about this postcrikey 'o' freakin reilly....
haven't heard you since the late five live...
Complain about this postand now i hear you're going out with adrian... good choice!
looking for your new show to play back.... and quietly leathered..... and a freakin technophobe....
Fi
Sorry for what?
I feel it is necessary to explain the trip-me-up-beauty of live radio to someone who should know her role like her demographic-anomologeriatricus and when it comes to Saturday morning, live or not, there is a hole to fill - no Granny pun intended.
Keep this 'sorry' thing up and there will be a hole in the demographic of those who did listen to what was quality on Saturday mornings, me girl.
So, I'll give it a go for a few weeks and see if listening to you while sitting in a nursing home with my Granny improves.
She and I send our love
Easton and Frederica
PS I hope this is recognized as a contrast to comments in general and inspires the inclusion of contrasting guests on your programme (not show).
Complain about this postThe gag was certainly dreadful for a best man's opener. But it was surely legitimate to broadcast it.
But, if you feel so upset about it why have you left it undedited on the "listen again" copy of the show?
Complain about this postYep, you will get a lot about female anglers. Check out the Pickerings and Scothornes in South Yorkshire. two households of male and female world champions. Something about the water!!!!!!
Good to have you back. Rather hoped you would get DIDs and return for BH but I suppose you have some dark desire to retain something of the weekend. 24 hour party person...huh
Complain about this postJust love YOUR show, i hardly heard the Queen Mum joke . The balance of guests this week(30-9-06) was good ,v informative, funny and a joy to listen to
Complain about this postAfter Home Truths i didn't think anything could quite compare and live up to it.!
Don't beat your self up about mistakes that are genuine slip of the tongue.All the best for future programmes
j r pennington
No way should you apologise Fi! It's a top joke. :)
Complain about this postNo need to apologise. I was more irritated by Arabella Weir than that joke!
Complain about this postI was delighted with the joke. I rang up my sister in England, and heard her still chuckling at having listened to Sat. Live and heard the same joke. What a relief to hear such healthy, light blasphemy against a much less than sacred cow.
John Toomey, Germany
Complain about this postDear Fiona
I think you're a fine presenter - only *please* stop apologising for yourself! Everyone makes the odd gaff with their 'worms' as Ronnie Barker exploited to the hilt, & it just gets in the way of the show to labour the point or let the pedants hi-jack the show over it.
The truly annoying gaffs are when the likes of Today Programme presenters cannot remember the difference between 'less and fewer'! Although this is so prevalent now that I almost find myself doing it too on occasion!
Remember 'less is fewer' (usually) & I'll continue to think you're a fine presenter.
Many thanks for having the fine Elvis McG back again by the way - His Tony Blair long goodbye poem was sublime. Richard Fish & Arabella Weir great guests too.
Complain about this postThere are plenty of writing competitions for 'exciting' new (young) talents but how does a spirited 81-year old get her 'exciting new talent' in the form of her first screenplay, noticed?
Following three years of screenplay-writing classes at Warwick University, retired teacher Margaret Grant-Smith has penned 'The Drawing Room' - an eerie tale of family secrets spilling out of closets with a little supernatural help.
She's told by her tutor that it's good and listens to all his advice about improving it still further.
Where next for Margaret G-S? Especially now Head of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Drama, Jane Tranter, has been promoted, just days after Margaret G-S submitted her screenplay to her!
Is this a true-life story Saturday Live might be interested in? Margaret can be contacted direct via margaret@gsknight.freeserve.co.uk
(I was privileged to meet this lovely lady through a writer's group we both belonged to when I lived in Coventry)
Complain about this postThe Joys of Live Radio has its positives and negatives.
The Positives were the following
1. When Bush put his foot in his mouth by using the expletive when referring to Hezbollah and Syria.
2. A Leaked Tape Recording of Raul Castro admitting that Cuba has troops in Venezuela to repress the democratic opposition, that he ordered the shooting down of a commercial plane in February 1996, and that he has ties with the Republicans and Democrats in Washington [which helped Castro and Washington destroy a boat called the 13th of March in the Florida Straits between Florida and Cuba]. [This Boat had Women and Children and were in International Waters].
3. When Bush was talking and he had a problem with flatulence.
Complain about this postI'm going to stray off the topic here, but would like to say that if you can get Arabella Weir as a regular/semi-regular/semi-permanent guest, I would be absolutely delighted. She hits all the right notes for a show of this sort, as I’m sure you’ll agree. You know you want to.
Complain about this postI notice that my post about what a terrible addition Arabella is to Fi's show (posted after last Saturday's Show 30/9) has not made it onto your message board, whereas sycophantic comments slide on with apparent ease.
My letter read:-
Dear wonderful Fi,
Complain about this postYour gentle sarcasm established a fond place in many irreverent hearts on your Sunday program, leaving a huge void when you left...
I (and many friends) were expecting more of the same, and were eagerly looking forward to hearing you back again on Saturday mornings. However the current format is VERY disappointing, hanging together awkwardly.
Why the awful Arabella? I hope that you will forgive me for saying that you are an appalling mixture on this program, however great friends you may be. Together you are about as palatable as listening to Jim Naughtie and one of the presenters from Woman’s Hour (I think) when different presenters were being trialled for the Today program. She disappeared without trace… at least from Today. Goodbye A.
PLEASE PLEASE will you (or whoever it was that ran the Sunday program) put YOUR special stamp onto the soul of the new program and find your former form. I and lots of others miss you.
Heads all over this World must still shaking in disbelief at the awfulness of this morning’s program,
Yours sincerely,
Nicholas Boyd
London SW6
I believe your programme the week before last included a contribution from a chap who wrote political speeches and had authored books on public speaking/rhetoric.
Complain about this post(Sorry to be so vague but caught the programme half way through walking to the train station)
I'd dearly like to read some of his books, can you possibly help?
Thanks
Madge
thank you for the very interesting piece on snoring. I identified with the snorer's wife completely! I will definitely encourage my husband to try the mandible advancer, if a similar investigation indicates it will be effective. His snoring is worse than constant: it's intermittent. We think it could be linked to his heart, because now that his arhythmia is being treated, with a cocktail of drugs, he snores less.
Complain about this postWith the numbers of snorers out there - did you mention over 10 million? - how does any work get done the next morning?
I just listened to the deluded lady who maintained her right to smoke hundreds of thousands of cigarettes over the past ? years. WHY oh WHY can't she realise that in smoking she inevitably affects those around her ? The smoke is not only poisonous but also nauseating to many of us. By doing what SHE wants, she selfishly affects many others in her vicinity. This is both ant-social AND dangerous. Yet she expects OUR NHS to foot the bills for her own smoking-related illnesses and presumably also of all the others who've been affected by passively inhaling HER poisonous smoke. This is an incredibly short-sighted and selfish attitude !!!
Complain about this postDear Fi for Muriel Gray
Cool Water was recorded by Marty Robbins on Gunfighter Ballads.
I'm also a fellow oesophagus sufferer that proves difficult at times especially around the family table because everyone wants to talk and I've found that it is better to remain as silent as possible during meal times.
Also all the food that I eat has to be quite moist and thoughtfully eaten if you get my drift.
Allergy to certain foods can also aggravate the problem.
Kind Regards
Complain about this postAL
I find that taking an indigestion tablet just before starting to eat usually prevents this awful choking unable to get food into the stomach situation. I always take the tablet if eating out in restaurants or friends' houses or if I have visitors at home as otherwise it can be very embarrassing, I once heard on the radio that "specialists" recommended Gaviscon before eating but I find the taste much too strong and prefer a simple Tums or other indigestion tablet.
It's good to hear that I'm not alone with this annoying problem.
Complain about this postI have just read Laura King's comment dating back to 3 October about 'less' and 'fewer'. I agree wholeheartedly. It has been annoying me for a long time on many ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio channels - quite often on Five Live and I have been tempted in the past to complain that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ no longer knows how to distinguish between them. At school we were taught that 'less' applies to an indivisible quantity - like milk and 'fewer' to a number you can count - like 'fewer visitors'.
Dear Fi, please can you pass this on to the other ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radion stations as well?
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