The Joy of Essex

[Mad Cyril]

BBC4, 9pm next Tuesday.

Hopefully it will go some way towards redressing the balance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qfr95

 

[chapperzUK]

Will have to be something special to undo the god awful "reality" show on ITV that somehow has been running for several series.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Jonathan Meades is excellent so this should be a treat.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Essex.The only way is up.Interesting piece here.http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/23/essex-only-way-is-up

 

[Uncle Leo]

Jonathan Meades is excellent so this should be a treat.

Can't stand him. But it's about God's own county (despite what those ill-informed Yorkshire folk might say) so I'll be tuning in.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Can't stand him. But it's about God's own county (despite what those ill-informed Yorkshire folk might say) so I'll be tuning in.

I thought the programmes he did on France last year were interesting.Certainly different.

 

[Uncle Leo]

I thought the programmes he did on France last year were interesting.Certainly different.

He's so far up his own arse it's unbelievable.

That said, he's never boring.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Hmm could be interesting, anything that opposes the towie view of our fair county has to be a good thing.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

It will be interesting.

Meades will rattle off a lecture on Essex whilst visual metaphors flash across the screen. His programmes at that rare thing: a TV programme that actually requires you to concentrate. He actually challenges rather than speaks down to his audience.

 

[southend4ever]

My gawd this programme is going to be a heap of ****.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Essex.The only way is up.Interesting piece here.http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/23/essex-only-way-is-up

The comments about Essex are anything but liberal.

 

[Mad Cyril]

It will be interesting.

Meades will rattle off a lecture on Essex whilst visual metaphors flash across the screen. His programmes at that rare thing: a TV programme that actually requires you to concentrate. He actually challenges rather than speaks down to his audience.

It wouldn't have hurt the BBC to have someone from Essex present the program. Someone who isn't old school BBC and someone who isn't Russel Brand.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Rachel Riley?

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

The Owl Man was unavailable due to prior commitments.

 

[Uncle Leo]

It wouldn't have hurt the BBC to have someone from Essex present the program. Someone who isn't old school BBC and someone who isn't Russel Brand.

Wilko Johnson while he's still with us.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Rachel Riley?

Ha!I know her parents well.She hardly counts as an Essex girl.

 

[Perth Bambi]

Why not? She was born here, went to school here and was friends with many girls also from Essex

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Why not? She was born here, went to school here and was friends with many girls also from Essex

Yes but she's a Manure fan just like her Dad,Chris.

 

[MK Shrimper]

My vote goes to Kate Walsh, local songstress :thumbsup:

 

[Gremlin]

Yes but she's a Manure fan just like her Dad,Chris.

Is that relevant?