BBC presenters!

I thought you would all love these 'barely literate' presenters though, as they're sure to be all be Leftie Remainers. I thought it was the Leavers who were stupid. It's a bit contradictory to your normal opinions which now, it seems, has destroyed some of your previous Brexit arguments!

Waht annoys me is when some otherwise perfectly good historian or similar shows us an interesting document, picture, or map and then points or gesticulates all over it so we cannot properly see the damn thing.

It's important to listen to the first 3 words of a question on University Challenge. This also applies to Brain of Britain.

Oh I thought a little red face would appear where I typed blush blush,

It always amazed me how ignorant Jeremy Vine was on Eggheads when one of them told him something obvious and he didn't know it, unfortunately cant recall anything specific at the moment blush blush. I have to add I like Jeremy Vine.

By the time they get to the end of the question in University Challenge, I have forgotten the start of it. 'Only Connect' stretches the mind as well. For children learning about the past the 'Horrible Histories' books and TV programmes are good fun.

Of course, my DC were at senior school when they were allowed a choice of humanities for GCSE, history, geography. or RE.
They all seemed to spend a lot of time at primary school and first year senior school learning about castles, and could probably design one from scratch.

There was not room in the curriculum to fit in more than one of those subjects.

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!

Compulsory, absolutely !

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

Even my DGD know about Henry

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?

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

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 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.

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 like Osman and Armstrong

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 love the chaps on Pointless.

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

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.

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 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.

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.