A quick one today...
How is your Big Freeze going? Here in North Wales
it is almost spring-like, with clear blue skys and relatively warm sunshine. We
had a bit of a frost last night, but it was all gone within minutes of the sun
rising above the mountains. I'm sure your listeners will be
interested....!
So, perhaps today will be the day you talk about an
issue that affects me...
1) ABU QATADA - Most newspapers today are
outraged that Abu Qatada has been released on bail. But what exactly has he done
wrong and what crimes has he committed in this country? : Newspapers?
Outraged? Bless. My heart bleeds for them. Honestly. Like your programme, am I
supposed to care about the opinions of the Dead Tree Press and what they try and
tell me to think? They fail every day, of course, because I don't subscribe to
their claptrap. I have no idea, or interest, in what Mr Qatada has done, but
thanks for making me aware of another topic that I can thankfully ignore in the
future. This sounds like an opportunity to drag Galloway in to the fray, and that in
itself is a good reason not to listen. Next...
2) MEMORY LOSS - A man who was brutally attacked and lost his memory couldn’t even remember his lover. Eventually he learnt to fall in love with her again and they’re now happily married. It’s an extraordinary story : Is it? Oh. "A man" and his family are very lucky to have had such a happy outcome, and I am pleased for them. I was puzzled by your statement on Ken's show when you said it is "biologically impossible to forget your mum". Are you sure about that? I'm not. Next...
3) CHARLES DICKENS - The famous writer was born 200 years ago today. Which passage from Dickens do you know and love? : I last read Charles Dickens as part of English Literature at school. I left school in 1974. I failed my English Literature O-Level exam. Other than the titles of his works (useful for pub quizzes) I cannot remember a single thing. Mark me down as an ignorant, uneducated pleb, if you like. Next...
4) STALKING - Victims are calling for a new
stalking law in England and Wales. They already have one in Scotland : This
will be a promotion of last night's Panorama programme, which I didn't see. Perhaps you should use your celebrity status (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311472/Radio-2-presenter-Jeremy-Vine-stalked-months-woman-28-took-name.html) to help these poor victims to get the law changed, but
somehow I don't think you will. And that, Jeremy, is a real shame.
So, not today then.
The Jeremy Vine Show - not changing anything, every day
What larks Mr Vine, that's a good one (mis-appropriated) from Dickens.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I have always had difficulty reading Dickens, far too verbose and too much narrative. I think its the style of writting from that time, as I have always been an avid reader, and don't mind lenghthy books. Did quite like Monica Dickens as a child 'tho!!
I think, to be honest, that an liking I may have had for Dickens, et al, and EngLit in general, was destroyed at school. I remember doing a Shakespeare (I can't remember which one), the OK-ish 39 Steps by John Buchan, and the appalling Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham. I think we must have been at least half-way through that one before I even realised what a kraken was! My memory was that it was boring, boring, boring.
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