BBC presenters!

Another fan of House of Games. I feel sorry for some of the participants as there is no place to hide on some rounds. The spelling is very revealing and often surprising. I too expected Angela Ribbon to do better, and as for poor Paul Martin, well he couldn’t spell for toffee!
The comedians always do well as they are very quick. I’m sad enough to google their backgrounds and most are Oxbridge grads.

APEGIRL. We too have a reporter on our local evening news whose voice grates. He’s so boring and annoying. Despite several complaints he’s still droning on. I turn the sound down and watch the subtitles when he’s on!

Another fan of the House of Games here.
It’s the fastest half an hour of telly on and yes embarrassing revealing for some .....Paul Martin comes to mind indeed!

Naga Manchetty……..ugh! Awful!
We like House of Games but Paul Martin has dyslexia and should not have gone on there.

Years ago I had some children performing at an opening of a huge new shopping centre. A celebrity presenter was comparing. She was a household name at the time and a very nice person btw. She admitted to me that she was useless at impromptu presenting as she’d become reliant on auto cue. She asked me to help her fill in her intro with relevant details so we went on together and did a bit of a double act! ?

We actually have a very good presenter on our local BBC who has been in the job for 35 years and knows the area very well. He does a regional version of Sunday Politics and is good at getting an informative discussion from politicians of different parties.

He does not project his own ego in the way the likes of Andrew Neil, John Humphries and Laura Kuenssberg do. I don't know whether he might ever have been offered a move to London, but if he did, I'm glad he stayed here.

I agree with ‘Its who you know’ in presenting. Look at all the offspring that have jobs. They start young; look at Chris Evans’ son and all the Dad and their lad journeys and experiences on TV.

The one thing we expect of TV presenters is correct pronunciation. This is not a matter of using a southern English accent (once snootily described as "received pronunciation"), but having a clear understanding of the distortion of meaning caused by incorrect pronunciation.

I once met Angela Rippon and was shocked that when we were discussing the language spoken in the Western Isles she refererred to it as Gaelic (pronounced Gaylick) rather than Gaelic (pronounced Gallick). "Gaylick" is how you pronounce the Irish Gaelic language.

I can’t stand Osman or Armstrong in anything. So unfunny. I find Angela Rippon patronising and hate the way her face looks when someone else is speaking on that show she presents with a couple of others.

I don’t watch Pointless, Osman’s show, the One Show or anything with any of them in it.

OP, are you sure they weren’t referring to a delightful little song made up by a three year old girl and recorded by her dad, Tom Rosenthal. It’s called ‘dinosaurs in love’ and plays freely with ‘facts’. Hope the link works but if not you can Google it.

www.google.co.uk/search?q=dinosaurs+in+love&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

I love House Of Games, gives the little grey cells a workout too.
Sometimes feel sorry for a few contestants though!
Richard Osman is a relaxed but not frenetic host, always amusing.

Aepgirl....is this Radio Oxford by any chance? They definitely have a presenter like this.

I love the chaps on Pointless.

I really like Amol Rajan and find him very interesting but I do wish he would not gabble and swallow the ends of some words.

He speaks alternately clearly and slowly then speeds up and gabbles all in the same sentence, making it difficult to follow him without really concentrating.

If you're reading this, Amol, (which I doubt ) please take note.

I like Osman and Armstrong

I like House of Games & Richard Osman. I, too, have noticed that comedians are generally bright and often television presenters are limited.
We have particularly noticed that people on quiz shows have very little knowledge of British history, often guessing answers that are several centuries out. Does anyone know why this is?

I have to turn off Radio 2 in the morning. The morning presenter gets too excited, speaks too quickly, gushes too much over her guests. She can be so annoying. I enjoyed last week when she was off and a young man took the reins for the week. I thought he did a great job and kind of wished he could replace her.

Grannycool52 History doesn't seem to be important in our schools. In my work (tour guide) I have a lot of Europeans as well as Brits to entertain, and I've been rather shocked at how little British history the Brits seem to know - blank looks at the mention of Henry VIII. While a surprising number of Europeans seem to know what I'm talking about. Although a lovely man last year did say to me, "If I'd had a history teacher like you I might have paid more attention". And there you have it, we're just not interested.

I thought every British person knew about Henry VIII even if they knew no other history.

callistemon well so did I! Which is why I was shocked. The Civil War is likewise practically unheard of. Hilary Mantell would do us a favour if she could tackle that one next

I think the people who have never heard of Henry VIII won't be reading Mantel's books!

1066 And All That would be good

callistemon that's interesting, however generally people are aware of the 1066 date for some reason, but are unsure of what happened. But you're right - the Horrible Histories sort of thing?

Yes, that would be good!
Compulsory viewing and/or reading?

Even my DGD know about Henry

Compulsory, absolutely !

I'm afraid lack of knowledge of British history is not new. Some years ago I was working with some 20 somethings, we were talking about plans for Christmas and I mentioned that it was fortunate Oliver Cromwell's plans to ban the celebration didn't last.

They looked at me blankly and asked who Oliver Cromwell was - I explained he governed for a while following the revolution. Each of them were totally unaware there had been a revolution!