Well done Chris Patten - BBC given some stick

[grahamw48]

That is so funny Graham, but also reassuring, because I also listen to the Shipping Forecast ( after the "Sailing By" theme music at about 12.45 am ) - it helps me get to sleep ( although I can imagine better ways ! ).

lol!! you must know the guy I mean then.

Anyway, I thought you had a woman with you.

At least I have an excuse nodding off to 'sailing by'...ie, sad lonely old so and so.

[Arthur Little]

Accents are my specialty ... for as long as I can remember, I've enjoyed mimicking the ways in which other folk speak.

[Doc Alan]

Apologies Dedworth ... this thread is following the usual "patten" of going off - topic .

[Dedworth]

Apologies Dedworth ... this thread is following the usual "patten" of going off - topic .

[Dedworth]

Good article here

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...o-the-BBC.html

It’s great to have him there, speaking up for us. You do wonder, though, given the shock that greeted Lord Patten’s speech, what message his predecessors were giving the BBC. “You should pay the director general more, really. And remember: immigration and the EU are always to be treated as good things, in every programme we make. Always describe non Left-wing guests as 'Right-wing’, but use 'expert’ for Left-wing ones…” That sort of thing?