The BBC proms are here again .
Now , after every piece , it's back to the presenters in a seperate studio , so you get less of a feeling of 'being there' .
Curiously , female presenters/guests on the televised proms do not wear bra's .
I'm thinking of one woman who I've seen on several prom broadcasts in recent years , and the two females in the bbc prom studio tonight .
Which does'nt bother me , but does puzzle me somewhat .
What matters is that they know what they're talking about . The young woman on tonights broadcast does , but is never invited by Charles Hazelwood to say anything .
As for the old matron who he keeps grovelling round , just because she's been on a tv programme called 'dragons den' , and he and his bbc producers are desperately trying to make their televised classical music concerts seem relevant to the majority of viewers who do'nt like classical music , none of her comments demonstrate anything more than a vague , shallow knowledge of the music she's meant to be trying to popularise .
She stated that it's not possible to remain sitting down whilst listening to Mozart.
Oh Really ? Well the seated audience in the albert hall manage to .
Not even his requiem then ? - Oh , I see . . .
I think she must have ants in her pants . If she wears them .
Richard Strauss's profound and moving 'Four Last Songs' were followed by clips from 'Dragons Den' .
Which may be a superbly ingenious game-show , I do'nt know , I've never seen it or wanted to , but talk about spoiling the mood . .
Elsewhere , on bbc radio's home of live news and sport Radio5live , all that matters , from dawn til dusk , from yesterday until god knows when is a minority-interest sport called golf , which is slow , boring , and is about as suited to radio as Wayne and Collen Rooney would be suited to presenting the proms - now there's an idea !
I often wonder what 5live would do if a massive news-story broke during an important Manchester United match . . .
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I do'nt begrudge Robert Murat any of his compensation for the contemptible lies about him published in several newspapers .
And all because a silly red-top-tabloid sunday newspaper reporter thought him suspicious , on account of his trying to help in any way he could after Madeleine McCann disappeared .
I hope the reports that he and Kate and Gerry McCann may very soon be relieved of their 'arguido' status are correct .
But , do'nt hold your breath . . .
The portugese authorities will , so far as they can get away with it , continue to seek to give the impression that they know that the McCann's and/or Murat are responsible , but that they just can't prove it .
2008-07-19 @ 00:03