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post Feb 12 2013, 10:37 AM
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According to the BBC, The chief constable of Thames Valley Police, Sara Thornton, is one of the top 20 most powerful women in the UK!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21420189
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post Feb 12 2013, 11:01 AM
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post Feb 12 2013, 12:54 PM
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QUOTE (badmummajamma @ Feb 12 2013, 10:37 AM) *
According to the BBC, The chief constable of Thames Valley Police, Sara Thornton, is one of the top 20 most powerful women in the UK!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21420189

Woman's hour? Good grief. It's not like women have phallically-challenged special-needs or anything, they're just people. Time to junk Women's hour and replace it with some quality broadcasting like The Life Scientific or In Our Time, and replace the vapid 15 minute drama with a decent morning play.


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post Feb 12 2013, 01:16 PM
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I have no problem with them listening to their own programs. (providing all the housework etc, has been done).

They can sometimes get a pretty raw deal, bless 'em, so if they want to sit around the wireless listening to patronising guff then I say good luck to them. It'll save their pretty little heads from having to think about anything of real importance. (like parallel parking, map reading, the off-side rule, why on earth Chelsea bought Torres, and Skyrim)
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post Feb 12 2013, 02:18 PM
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QUOTE (Amelie @ Feb 12 2013, 01:16 PM) *
I have no problem with them listening to their own programs. (providing all the housework etc, has been done).

They can sometimes get a pretty raw deal, bless 'em, so if they want to sit around the wireless listening to patronising guff then I say good luck to them. It'll save their pretty little heads from having to think about anything of real importance. (like parallel parking, map reading, the off-side rule, why on earth Chelsea bought Torres, and Skyrim)


Or maybe even posting on a local newspaper forum on such edifying subjects as bollards...?

Wondered how long it would be before this topic descended into misogyny - although I think/hope Amelie is being ironic here!

As for Melvyn Bragg and his 'In Our Time' - quite the most tedious programme on Radio 4 in my opinion - I much prefer programmes about puppies and kittens. laugh.gif



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post Feb 12 2013, 03:51 PM
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QUOTE (wabbit @ Feb 12 2013, 02:18 PM) *
I think/hope Amelie is being ironic here


You are correct.
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post Feb 12 2013, 05:25 PM
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13...l#axzz2KhrP5lja

tut tut
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post Feb 12 2013, 08:11 PM
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QUOTE (desres123 @ Feb 12 2013, 05:25 PM) *
tut tut


Really?
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post Feb 12 2013, 09:09 PM
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I'm with Simon on Woman's Hour, but would go even further. A good few of the Radio 4 programmes date back to the good old Home Service and really need to be refreshed. History has its place! Talk radio can should be vibrant and entertaining as well as informative. As for our Police Chief and her peers, seems like reality radio programme would have a bit of mileage, some great story lines there!


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post Feb 13 2013, 05:44 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Feb 12 2013, 12:54 PM) *
Woman's hour? Good grief. It's not like women have phallically-challenged special-needs or anything, they're just people. Time to junk Women's hour and replace it with some quality broadcasting like The Life Scientific or In Our Time, and replace the vapid 15 minute drama with a decent morning play.



Replace with Allotment Hour?
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post Feb 13 2013, 07:17 PM
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QUOTE (Darren @ Feb 13 2013, 05:44 PM) *
Replace with Allotment Hour?


...or rename it, 'Stay at home when everybody else is at work hour'.
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post Feb 13 2013, 10:08 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Feb 13 2013, 07:17 PM) *
...or rename it, 'Stay at home when everybody else is at work hour'.


Or, my personal favourite, "Huntin, Shootin, Fishin hour.


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post Feb 14 2013, 06:35 AM
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QUOTE (Darren @ Feb 13 2013, 05:44 PM) *
Replace with Allotment Hour?


Its OK, BBC produces more than enough programmes for vegetables....


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post Feb 14 2013, 08:20 AM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Feb 14 2013, 06:35 AM) *
Its OK, BBC produces more than enough programmes for vegetables....


Ooh, which ones?
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post Feb 14 2013, 10:01 AM
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QUOTE (Darren @ Feb 14 2013, 08:20 AM) *
Ooh, which ones?

most of day time tv, BBC3........
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post Feb 14 2013, 11:20 AM
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There is a good deal of quality broadcasting on Radio 4 viz the Today program, the best source of news by far.

There is some dross too but its still far better than the moronic gossip and garbage by the airheads given airtime on Heart.
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post Feb 15 2013, 08:38 PM
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Ms Thornton obviously likes sound of her own voice, as if you call "101",(non emergency number) there is a trailer with her speaking, before you can punch in code for required service.
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post Feb 15 2013, 11:08 PM
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QUOTE (Blake @ Feb 14 2013, 11:20 AM) *
There is a good deal of quality broadcasting on Radio 4 viz the Today program, the best source of news by far.

There is some dross too but its still far better than the moronic gossip and garbage by the airheads given airtime on Heart.


Couldn't agree more. The Today Programme is good, though rather too sensationalist / aggressive for my liking. A verbal Daily Mail. A personal view from someone who has listened since Jack DeManio presented.


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post Feb 15 2013, 11:43 PM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Feb 15 2013, 11:08 PM) *
Couldn't agree more. The Today Programme is good, though rather too sensationalist / aggressive for my liking. A verbal Daily Mail. A personal view from someone who has listened since Jack DeManio presented.

Blimey! Someone as old as me. I was beginning to think they were all youngsters on here.
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