#anna ford

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John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Clive Jenkins and Anna Ford.

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"I, for one, am sick of today’s bland entertainment. We need TV programmes fronted by louche characters with several days’ beard growth who look like they’ve come straight from a nightclub. Their rasping voices should suggest a 40-a-day habit. And the news would be far more interesting if presented by people who’d clearly enjoyed a good lunch on expenses. Broadcaster and journalist Reginald ‘Reggie’ Bosanquet often appeared worse for wear while fronting the News at Ten. One of his co-presenters, Anna Ford, recalled: ‘Reggie was a dear. I mean, you wouldn’t have chosen a man who had epilepsy, was an alcoholic, had had a stroke and wore a toupée to read the news, but the combination was absolute magic.’ Just imagine how ratings would soar for any channel brave enough to put a modern-day Bosanquet in front of the camera. It would be compulsive viewing. Forget the daily diet of doom – you’d tune in to see how pissed they were" - G.V. Chappell, When did we become so boring?

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The nameless cult surrealist Wavis O’Shave (almost) gets serious...

So I have been talking to a man whose real name I do not know. He performed as Wavis O’Shave on the 1980s Channel 4 TV music series The Tube, often in bizarre comedy sketches as ‘The Hard’.  But he has also appeared as Foffo Spearjig, Pan’s Person, Mustapha Dhoorinc, Mr Haggler, Howay Man and many more.  In 1994, on Granada TV’s show Stars in Their Eyes, he appeared as ‘Callum Jensen’…

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"Let's face it, there are no plain women on television."---Anna Ford, English journalist, b. 1943

“Let’s face it, there are no plain women on television.”—Anna Ford, English journalist, b. 1943

(Please note that each of these quotations is meant to be read independently of all the others, especially those immediately preceding and following the current quotation.)

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Excellent documentary style promo. Shown in May 1987, it showed the origins of the ITV Schools system, and promoted the service ahead of its switch to Channel 4 later in the year.

Opening Music: Just a Minute

Video from: TV Bits

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A Week of My Medication by Anna Ford