I'm a big listener of Radio 4 ...I remember dull childhood memories of it and now I'm glued. Wonder if my sons will feel the same? Love 'Midweek' with Libby Purves on my way to work, 99% of the time I end up an emotional wreck on arrival at work 35 mins after completing the school run. Sometimes I Google the programme to learn more about the contibuters. Worthy people with life stories to tell in the books they are promoting. On eve on the way home from work was a programme about St Joseph's Hospice in a southern uk location. My Dad, recently departed was a contender for the local St Luke's Hospice but passed away before this happened. The man focused on in the programme was educated and humble. In another programme today, John Snow, the newsreader told of his experiences in disaster zones, and he interviewed very well as a decent, humble and educated man.
In contrast, for 2 days now, we have a woman married to a speaker in the Commons? Who is very vocal about feeling how 'sexy' it is living underneath Big Ben (uh?, Sexy?) and dressing in a sheet then my husband tells me she has isued a statement saying that both her and her husband have had loads more attention from the opposite sex due to her husbands promotion in politics, hence power is 'sexy'. I really wonder why we have any confidence in these people who 'run the country'. I've absolutely no patience with this shallow stuff that becomes headline news when, as John Snow says, they have to censor filming people in disaster locations screaming out of windows for their lives. I feel disgusted and disappointed at this culture that promotes such rubbish and gives air time to stupidity.
