What did you think of the show? (29/01/09)
Comedian Jo Brand was in the studio, telling us about Comic Relief.
Dom Littlewood gave us an update on the government's Warm Front heating grant scheme.
Hardeep Singh Kohli experienced life as a Benedictine Monk.
Gyles Brandreth examined the rise of left handers. Left is best, right? Add your comment.
And Carol Thatcher continued the Claim to Fame series. She visited Tregothnan in Cornwall, home to Britain's only tea plantation.
What did you think of show? Add your comment.
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Why do the third child born often turn out as left handed? My youngest daughter who is child number 3 is left handed.
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Good to see your piece about Belmont Abbey. I spent several very happy breaks there and remember Brother Bernard very well. I was sorry to hear of Abbot Alan Rees's death. He was very kind to me when I attended his plainsong break. I think of the place often.
As a left-hander, I was also very interested in my fellow lefty Giles Brandreth's piece.
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Dear One Show, please please please can you appoint yourselves as the antidote to the recession?
We have just watched the BBC news & it is so depressing, obviously we live in serious economic times but nurturing this gloomy outlook will really only make people become inward looking when they need their heads up and courage!
As an example on tonights news, the focus was on the loss of 1000 London Transport jobs, with scant coverage of the fact that these jobs may be transferable to the new tube link project. They didn't even mention that subway are creating 5000 new jobs ( worldwide).
Come on guys, get your roving reporters out there to find the GOOD economic news!!
Thank you, Sally Brown xxx
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Just watched Jo Brand talking about Comic Relief - a great cause...but isn't it just a tad hypocritical of the BBC to devote all this time, effort and money to an event to raise awareness and fundraising for the plight of children overseas when it won't run a single minute for Gaza?! So happy to get involved in showing that governments are doing enough for one group of people as long as it doesn't upset anyone we're friendly with?
Get a grip BBC!
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Loving the show - as ever - but whoever styled Christine tonight should be sacked! She looks like she is about to take her make up off and head for the shower! Was\ the hair stylist off sick?
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Shame on you!
No left handed women?
Marie Curie for one, did no one think of even using Google!
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History is littered with great left handed men...according to your report
No great left handed women then?
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Dear One Show - I'm confused. Why do you have all these special guests - some from as far away as the States when they only participate for about 5 minutes? The rest of the time they sit in the studio while other clips are shown. It must be really irritating for them.
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I love the show as usual but was quite concerned as to why when talking about people who are left handed you only referred to men...and the great men of history at that? Are you not aware of left handed women who have made a difference? I looked on the internet and found: Marie Curie, Queen Victoria, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc...come on BBC show some equality!!!
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my daughter is left handed and HSBC provide left handed cheque books they look wierd but do work
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so, history is littered with famous left handed men is it?
..... are all women right handed ... ?
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Just wanted to let the team know, both my parents are right handed but both my brother and I are left handed. I'd like to know what the chances of that is?!!! My brother had two girls who are both right handed and I had a boy and a girl who are both right handed.
I used to work for a Japanese company and when Japanese visitors came to our company they used to come and watch me write as in Japan, any inclination to use the left hand was immediately quashed!!
Because the entire world (30 years ago) was a right handed world I learnt to use my right hand. I only use my left hand for writing and drawing. Everything else I do with my right.
One more thing, most people wear thier watch on their left hand. I wear mine on my right.
Which hand do other lefthanders wear their watch on??
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I just watched Gyles Brandreth's report on left handedness.
I am myself left handed and as a small child I was ambidextrous.
I would write with both hands, but Kings Road Primary school, Rosyth (forces family at the time) forced me to place my left arm behind my back in an attempt to make me right handed. This happened in the late 80's . Not long ago at all and i believe counter productive .
One of the main problems I had was trying to write, When the teacher tells everyone to tilt their paper it is the wrong way for a left hander causing them to "hook hand" Also the correct way to form letters is reversed. Too late for me to change now but there are left handed calligraphy sets on the market, I tried one but it was too late to change the bad habits (the nib of the fountain pen is angled).
Both Father and grandmother are left handed, Brother is right handed.
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When will Christine dress in African attire? She will look regal in a Nigerian Yoruba Outfit with the headgear.I just know so.
As for being lefthanded yes I am and all what you said about lefties are quite true.
Can you tell Christine to visit a Nigerian Fashion Boutique and tell her to try these lovely Nigerian clothes.
Also lastly she is nice,intelligent and she is hot! rrrrrr!
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I wear my watch on the left hand !
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With reference to being left-handed - I would have loved to have seen someone right-handed attempting to use a left-handed pair of scissors! This would have demonstrated just how difficult it really is in a right-handed world. Left-handed goods are few and far between and extremely expensive. Being a hairdresser who only recently discovered the pleasure of using left-handed scissors, I could think of a whole series of programmes to follow on from your brief taster on left-handedness
I love your programme
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I love watching the one show. I was interested to find out where you can buy scissors for left handed people as my son has ruined numerous pairs of mine. I work with a few left handed people, mostly women.
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Ever since John Sergeant was in the news alot during Strictly, I always thought he reminded me of someone. After watching tonight's show, I know who it is; it's Jo Brand!
Are they related?
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Once again a left-handed musician has trotted out the myth the musical instruments are designed for right-handers. It's just not true and people like Paul McCartney who go for backward instruments are doing themselves a grave dis-service. How much better might Paul have been if he'd played the correct way round? My sister-in-law is a left-handed viola player in a professional orchestra and she tells me that whereas 10% of "ordinary" people are left-handed, 50% of her string colleagues are left-handers. It may be that not everyone will agree with her conclusion but I think the One-Show owes it to left-handed viewers to put this point forward so musicians like the Ukelele player featured think several times before spending time and effort and money doing something that may be unnecessary and even put them at a severe disadvantage.
Mark Tennant, Tregaron, Wales
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I have always understood that, as the right hand side of the brain governs the left hand side of the body, it means that left handed people are the only ones in their right minds!!
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I just want to bring to every one's notice that the "normal" tape measure one purchases is made for persons who hold whatever is used to make a mark in the left hand. If one holds the marking tool in the right the figures are upside down.
John Pennington South Shields
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I'm also a left-hander ,a 'sinister' person.
Anyway ,did I hear Gyles Brandreth equate England with the United Kingdom ? Or did the statistics quoted purely refer to England as per allusion ?
It's one of those 'betes noires ' of us Scots .
I'm quite happy to be included as a statistic of the UK ,but I recoil at being a statistic of England.
By the way ,left-handers also have language centres in both hemispheres of the brain ;and the good news is ,that in the event of a stroke ,we're more likely to retain a language function .Whoopee do !!.
You could have featured the famous 'left-handed potato-peeler .'
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Jimi Hendrix played left hand guitar and was a genius
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Am I the only left handed woman in the
world, Giles Brandreth???
Every person you mentioned was a bloke...
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Really enjoyed the report on us Leftys, check out the website anythinglefthanded. You will be amazed at how many products you can buy just for us. I have had fun with the lefthanded calendar that you can print off (you ask a right hander to try using it) it is genuine, or even the backwards clock etc, left handed mugs. I could go on forever. Well worth a look, and read about all the famous men AND women who are or where left handed. finally did you know that the 13th of August is lefthanders day?. I amuse people with my lefthanded mouse at work, as a lot of people do not realise you can configure the settings so that your main button is on the right! another way to get your own back. Could do with the lefthanded keyboard next, that will really have them bafled. I do a mean left handed tick as well. opposite to everyone else of course.
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has anyone else tried mirror writing . I saw it on points of view years ago and found it remarkably easy.
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fao christene! great show darling and sorry to hear about your split with your partner. keep ye chin up! things can only get better hun.... keep smile'ing xx andy from sheffiled.
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Christine chin up !heard about your break up and we are thinking of you !!love the show ,only gripe is guests dont have enough time on show !would be better having less gardening ,and animals???
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Dis I detect a small degree of friction between Jo Brand and that woman with a famous mummy?
Jethro
Cheshire
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what a pity jo brand had to show her political bias when sitting with maggies daughter. not carols fault who her mother was.
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Pity that tankerbill objects to someon expressing an opinion - or is it only those he disagrees with.
Who her Mummy "was" did I miss the reports of that woman's demise, not to mention the resulting street parties.
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Whats Jo Brands problem? It was so obvious there was some friction between her and Carole Thatcher..or maybe she was the one who complained about Carol's gaff about Golliwogs...??? Let us in on the truth BBC
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Re BBC banning Carol Thatcher
I'm not surprised that Adrian Chiles and Jo brand have found an excuse to put the knife into Carol Thatcher. Their antagonism was very obvious during the programme. You just had to watch the body language
Whilst I do not condone her choice of words. It was made in private and could have been tackled privately.
Making it public is purely malicious and it's obvious they were looking for an excuse to get rid of her.
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Just heard the news tonight that a comment (Golliwog) by Carole Thatcher off screeen has resulted in action against her.
Political correctness gone mad, just what has this country come to???? Ross can talk about having sex with a pensioner on air and he gets a pat on the back????
It is about time commonsense prevails and this sort of stupidity ends.
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Re: BBC banning Carol Thatcher.
How dare 'they' make sure that Carol Thatcher's name was mentioned in the right ears to ensure such a remark would be brought to public attention on BBC TV and radio news ?
Nothing better to talk about I guess. Since when did the public need to know comments passed at a private gathering ?
Just ensure Carol is back on the one show please.
Golliwog..........my foot............ I may still have mine somewhere. Probably beside my Scots Jock highland piper and the Welsh bird in her lovely costume.
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Look, I don't like Carol Thatcher much, far less her mother, but what on earth are Adrian Chiles and Jo Brand - neither of whom are black - doing running off to BBC honchos to winge and whine about her using a silly racist name in a private conversation? Good grief, they're worse than mean-spirited little children and should feel hugely embarrassed of themselves. It's obvious they went out of their way to get the eccentric but well-meaning Thatcher into trouble by cynically playing the race card.
Hopefully anyone who has ever heard Brand or Chiles make an injudicious remark ever in their lives will now come forward to rat on them and show them up as hypocrites.
I for one shall boycott the silly, hissy One Show.
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Such small mindedness is not in the normal style of the One show. Are all private conversations to be so vetted in future? I sincerely hope not.
Society already has a Granny State mentality and could well do without the BBC to introducing even more stringent monitoring to our private lives.
I feel really sorry that Carol seems to have been betrayed in this way. She ceratainly does not come over as being in any way racist.
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Bring back Carol Thatcher - she is open , fun and interesting.
She belongs to a generation which loved golliwogs and didn't even know the term racist put-down , never mind use it.
A nation which cannot accept that words which have until very recently been part of common language [ the 'p' word and 'g' word particularly ] will not pass out of it at the stroke of some 'p.c.' pen is idiotic.
Get your sense of perspective back BBC and don't be bullied by this kind of pathetic p.c. 'kliping'!!
lesley edinburgh
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Christine looked lovelly as allways,adrian what a divi.....c thatch.you go girl....bloody PC BBC...Get a grip
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Joe brand is somone ive never thought as funny....her stand up comedy is very 3rd rate,and you can see the hatred for carole thatch...ade sort it...how un professional,golliwog...for gods sake how pathetic...ohhhhh slap my face,you have too get agrip....god i hate the BBC...pointless.
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So own up. Was it Childes, Brand or both? Whichever, it is a disgrace that the public behaviour of Ross is accepted by the BBC while the private comment of Thatcher leads to a ban from the Oneshow. This is surely discrimination by t he BBC and must be challenged in court.
Which ever of the two kliped it is pathetic.
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Judging by the comments on this posting I thank God there are still people out there with a modicum of common sense. I love the show and watch it every evening, frankly I think it is a huge shame that something like this had to be dragged out into the public domain when it was a private incident. I married a man who could be said looked like a cross between Jimi Hendrix, the Yeti and a gollywog - they say love is blind. I like Carol and her slot in the shows but frankly if it where me, I'd rather starve in the streets than return to work with a petty minded, malicious, back stabbing lot like that. Go Carol and the best of luck to you, you're better then them.
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Here, here, Lesley in Edinburgh - and everyone else who is annoyed at Carol T being 'snitched on' and subsequently dropped from the show. I am disappointed in you Adrian and you have gone down greatly in my estimations!! Ditto for Jo. The despise of Carol was there for everyone to see! She (and particularly her mum) are not my favourite people but Carol was quirky, happy, interesting and delivered her articles well! Shame on you cow towing to this pressure BBC! (When I think of 'gollywogs' it is always with love and pleasure for my childhood - there was, and is not any hint of racism in it). GET A GRIP!!!!!!
M, Renfrewshire
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I didn't realize Chiles was such a prat
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What a let down! I used to like what I thought were witty comments by Chiles. I've never liked Brand who usually makes smutty and offensive unfunny "jokes" every time I've seen her but I notice nothing is ever said about this shining light of the smutty PC left, so beloved of the BBC.
How Chiles (yes, the family dumper to take up with a bimbo Chiles) and Brand can pontificate and be "offended" by reference to something as innocuous as a golliwog, much beloved by my non-PC generation, I fail to understand.
How the BBC can be taken in by all this I don't know - to justify its stance in continuing to overpay and impose the sickening Ross on us I suppose - thats the "not fit to be excrement on Carol Thatcher's shoe" Ross.
The sooner the BBC gets real by having the Licence Fee removed and having to justify its output to real people not the Hampstead guardianista set and leeching public sector brigade the better. In the meantime I'll make sure I don't watch Chiles, Brand, Ross or any other pathetic BBC smutty favourites!
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I do not think Carole Thatcher should be sacked. What she said was in private with her colleagues and if anything it is the 'snitch' who should be sacked.
What she said was not racist and was not being said in a derogatory way.
If anyone should be leaving the show it is Adrian Chiles, he is SO BORING. Send him back to football reporting where he belongs.
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The apology Carol thatcher has been reported as given is perfectly adequate.
Though I don't manage to see 'The One Show' every night, I followed Adrian Chiles for many years on 'Working Lunch' and had a high regard for him.
However if he is behind this, he has sunk very far in my estimation.
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How pathetic is the BBC and how sad is Adrian Chiles to 'sneak' on a fellow presenter. It was apparent that he couldn't stand Carol Thatcher from her appearance on the show and it now seems that he was determined to get rid of her. Unluckily for him, most of the british public have come out in her defence. The word gollywog has not been banned from the English dictionary. Indeed, gollywogs are still being made quite legally. I bought a keyring only the other day made by a firm in Kent. I shall now return to the shop and buy some more. Chris Moyles and Jonthan Ross get off lightly, but just because Mr Chiles and Ms Brand don't like someone, a presenter has to be fired. Talk about double standards.
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I wholeheartedly agree with all the other forum members about the BBC's action regarding Carol Thatcher - Adrian Chiles needs to be replaced his presenting 'skills' are awful - Jo Brand needs to examine her conscience: I'll hit the 'off'button from now on when The One Show is aired - and will watch other channels from now on. Carol you are better off without mean-spirited and spiteful people to work with and I wish you all successful in the future.
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I dont understand why Carol Thatcher been dropped from the show for making the comment 'Golliwog' when on the BBC morning programme, Down Under I am referred to as a 'POM' shouldn't the presenter Nicki Chapman be dropped then?
I think the BBC should look into why Adrian Chiles did what he did.
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Was it Adrian Chiles or Ms Brand who sneaked on the private remark made by Carol Thatcher? Which ever it was they will have caused 100% more hurt to people who were not party to the private conversation and would have not heard the remark.
People like Chiles and Brand seem ignorant of the harm they do by heating up racial tension throughout the country by their actions.
These people have privileged positions and with this privilege comes responsibility.
I will view this show and suspect it of hidden agendas in the future.
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Re Carol Thatcher, what PC nonsense. Clearly Chiles has lost the plot, the show has lost a(nother) viewer.
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Mr Chiles
Will you in future warn guests and colleagues that anything they say, on or off the air, may be taken down and used in evidence against them?
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I am appalled at the way Carol Thatcher has been treated. Her remark was offensive but I feel that that it is not in her character to be racist. Surely the whole matter could have been handled better. Carol should be reinstated asap. Shame on those who complained to the management and to the media. I am a regular viewer of the One Show and enjoy it very much. I however have noticed in the past that Carol did not got treated very well when she joined the presenters on the sofa. Jo Brand could not hide her obvious dislike of Carol on the show probably because of whose daughter she is. How small minded is that. Whoever made the complaint should watch out -you never know who might be listening and report you for making a comment that you think is an "innocent" one. The One Show "team spirit" is now lost forever when a colleague can get reported in such a high handed fashion.
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I am appalled at the hypocrisy, double-standards and amorality again shown by the presenters and bbc staff associated with this show and the editorial 'management'. You have no compunction giving wide coverage to "personalities" such as Jo Brand and Jonathon Ross allowing them to broadcast material which is wholly offensive to me and thousands of others, but ban Carol Thatcher for a private comment. Why is her apology unacceptable but the desirory one offered by Ross is sufficient to re-instate him? Are we no longer to make mention of the Robinson's golly - a feature of our childhood which had no connotations of insult to us? The degree of offense to which you protest is gratuitous and in my view synthetic.
The off/change- channel button in this house will be deployed whenever your show is broadcast.
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PLease re-instate Carol Thatcher, she will be a great loss to the show. This supposed conversation was not viewed on air, it was in PRIVATE supposedly amoung people she trusted. Surely the person/persons who were concerned over this remark should have had enough respect to keep this IN-HOUSE. This is the PC world gone mad. Will the BBC never learn. Shame on the person who repeated a private conversation, do they realise this could loose viewers from the show.
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It is good to see how much support CT has received. This has nothing to do with racism. I too noticed the body language of Jo Brand towards Carol. How she can expect support for her charity requests when she doesn't know how to behave herself towards a fellow human being. Doesn't matter what your politics are you should still have good manners. Jo Brand is not funny just plain rude and I shall certainly not be watching any programme that she is billed to be on and along with other people on this blog I shall no longer watch The One Show.
Comic Relief will not be supported by me either. Just a load of celebs pretending to care. My money goes to Oxfam and other local charities and I don't need to be told by unfunny comediens what to do with my money.
As for Adrian Chiles. I used to like him. Not any more. Get rid of him
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I didn't realise that adrian childes was such a prig, getting carol thatcher the sack because she used the word gollywog (off air) a word that's been around for hundreds of years.
I shall not be watching any more shows.
goodnight!
Dougal
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I think snitching on a fellow worker is appalling. As a result of sacking Carol Thatcher I will not watch this show again. She is a far better presenter than listening to the drivel coming from Adrian Chiles who has always struggled to hold the show together.
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Dear BBC
Just to say how appalled we are that a private conversation was used in such an inappropriate manner to sack Carol Thatcher. How was it that Jonathan Ross was permitted to remain in the pay of the BBC (paid by our licence ) when his behaviour was so much worse and in the public eye. Have we reached the era of Big Brother when what is said in private can have such a negative result? Can the fee-paying public know who was SO offended?
Jomag
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I think the sneaky way Chiles and Brand snitched on Carol Thatcher was a real disgrace . BIG BROTHER is alive and
well .Chiles has been heard saying things he wouldnt wa nt repeated .What a hypocrite ... I only watched the show for the likes of Carol and Giles Brandreth etc.The two "presenters are like gigglng idiots and this family for one wont be tuning in again to this show .. Why are we paying good money for the Labourite and foulmouthed trash the BBc currently throw at us ,,
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We are all products of the era in which we grew up, Carole T probably had a gollywog doll just as my sister did, I collected and wore the badges. Am I racist? If so please tell the indian girlfriend I once had!
To say that someone looks like the doll that probably played a large part of her childhood is not a racist comment - just an innocent remark from someone of her generation.
This was surely an occasion where a quiet word was in order behind the scenes. I'm appalled at Adrian Chiles for deliberately stoking this up, I too noticed the hostility of Jo Brand to CT and felt sorry for her being in such unpleasant company.
The BBC is so quick to condemn and show a knee-jerk reaction to any word which might possibly, in some circumstances, somewhere, cause some slight offence to someone. Words are not racist, people are; if the person behind the word isn't racist then there is no racism.
Ironically, this type of reaction exacerbates community relations by infuriating anyone with any common sense.
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I have always watched The One Show, but not anymore.
I am an ex-miner and have no time for Maggie Thatcher, but this does not mean that I hold any grudge against Carol Thatcher, I am appalled at the way the BBC have treated her after she came out with the Golliwog statement, Whoever reported her is pathetic, according to the press it was said in a private conversation with Mr Chiles if this is true it should be him who is sacked, I have been brought up to believe that in Britan we have freedom of speech?
It seems to me that if you are British you no longer have this right, due to small minded PC nerds, everyone has an opinion and it is not a crime to express it, you might not agree with it but so what. I think Mr Hugh Grant sumed up Mr Chiles when he said he felt that he was being interviewed by a nine year old, enough said. Mr A Nickle
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Pathetic! Pathetic! Pathetic!
It's about time the BBC lived in the real world like Carol Thatcher and stopped sucking up to the 'politically correct'
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I didn't realise that Adrian Childes was such a disgusting and conceited person. Not to be able to trust a person in a three way conversation leaves me cold. Is he afraid that unless he is as "PC" as his employer, he may lose his job. If I were Director General, both he and Ross would have been given instant dismissal. But then, I guess the BBC and all who work for Auntie will stick together.
****** those who pay for the licence.
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The remark made by Carol Thatcher in The One Show Green Room last Thursday caused considerable offence.
The One Show's Green Room is a busy space and, on Thursday, there were external guests and several members of the One Show production team present, as well as Adrian, Christine and our celebrity guest Jo Brand.
In some reports it has been suggested that the word in question was used in jest. This was not the case and the use of the word to describe a black sportsman caused instant offence.
Jo questioned Carol about it at the time but, contrary to some recent press reports, neither she nor Adrian contacted the press. The following day, a number of people who had either heard the comment or learned of it, made their feelings known to the show’s executive producer, who raised the issue with Carol.
By this point, the press had contacted the BBC with details of the incident asking for comments. Carol was given every opportunity to discuss the issue and offer an unconditional apology but declined to do so.
Carol’s occasional role as a roving reporter for The One Show requires her to work closely with the team, report on a broad variety of issues and meet a wide range of people across the country, many of whom are unlikely to find her comment acceptable in any circumstances. As a result, The One Show will not be asking Carol to appear on the show again.
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Ref Host_Ryan
Why does the BBC need more than 200 words to justify their interpretation of a private conversation?
Is the Green room so boring that people need to spend their time listening to Carol Thatchers private conversations?
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i think it just disgraceful the way the bbc has treated carol thatcher if this is how you treat people who are having a private conversation i dont think i will be watching this or any other show on bbc from now on channel 5 has carol on so that is what we will be watching from now on
ringspanner
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We are in total agreement with the messages of support for Carol Thatcher. We consider that the One Show/BBC have been made to look stupid with Polital Correctness gone mad! It appears to confirm the BBC's Labour bias, and the CT vs J Ross issues not dealt with on an even handed way.
No more One Show for us which is a shame.
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Why is there no 'feed' to continue the debate about Carol's shabby treatment. The Breakfast Show piece was a whitewash. Jo Brand is not, and was never, funny.
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I must agree that the BBC took the action it did. As an employer I learned the hard way that you have to take action if an employee makes inappropriate comments in the 'confines' of the coffee room. Usually other members of staff squirm in silence ..so good that they complained.
I am sure if Carol had done this once she would be doing it again. In my experience racists ( especially those who claim not to be) have the bad manners to tell you their distasteful views repeatedly,with no regard for other colleagues feelings, race or religions.
Well done Jo Brand and Adrian Childes.
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I am saddened by the Carol Thatcher
episode. Lots of people, all colours, were brought up with gollywog dolls which were
loved. I have watched the One Show since
it started and really enjoyed it but now I do not feel the same and probably will not
bother to watch in future. It now seems so
false.
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Once again the BBC has let itself down with lt's double standards.
If they are going to dicipline their employees let them at least be consistant.
Carol Thatcher made a bad error with her 'private' remark.
Jonathan Ross made a very public obscene phone call.
I rest my case.
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I am in my late 40s and have been an avid watcher and listener to the BBC all my life. After hearing the reports of the Carol Thatcher affair in the media and the depressing rant by Jay Hunt, the Controller of BBC One on the Today program on Radio 4 this morning, I feel I have to add my comments to the tidal wave of complaints the One Show and the BBC deserve to receive.
To describe the word Golliwog as "hugely offensive" in the context it was used is just another example of the PC hysteria which is currently gripping this country and the BBC in particular.
BBC management hypocricy and double standards knows no bounds yet again. While it broadcasts the "edgy" foul-mouthed humour of celebrities such as Jo Brand, it chooses to be "hugely offended" by lighthearted but anachronistic words like Golliwog uttered off air in a private conversation.
Get Real BBC!
It is clearly about time there was a top to bottom clear out of BBC management, starting with Jay Hunt herself.
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Absolute garbage BBC. I have just watched the Controller on BBC News, who explained that Ross was genuinely contrite, whereas Thatcher had not apologised....that was the difference ( Hitler must be kicking himself, if only he's known it was that easy ! ). So Ross can be involved in a broadcast item which would have immediately struck at least a doubtful chord with whoever heard it ( I didn't ).....and get away with it.....while Thatcher is taken to task for an old-fashioned remark, that wasn't broadcast, and much less likely to cause offence.
Obviously, Ross wasn't sacked because it would have cost the BBC even more of the licence-payers money to get rid of him. Thatcher, on the other hand, is presumably freelance and can be dispensed with.
When will people realise that, by making such ridiculous drama out of these crises, you are only making matters worse. Obviously she should not have said it.....but by ignoring the comment it would have been quickly forgotten. Now, for every person who was offended, there is a future BNP member who will jump to Thatcher's defence.
As for Chiles.....he was the one good thing ( Thatcher excepted ) about the One Show. His "offence" at the remark is manufactured and calculating.
Let me know when Thatcher is reinstated, and I might start watching again.,,,,while you're at it, get rid of that Tufnell idiot.
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I am devastated that Carol Thatcher has been sacked. I heard the BBC's explanation this lunch time and they explained that she was sacked because she has not apologised. Well, excuse me, does that mean you can do or say anything on the BBC private or otherwise, and if you then apologise, as in the case of J.Ross ,then everything is fine. I will no longer be watching the One Show as I do not believe that it was not Adrian Chiles who 'shopped her'. The BBC have double standards, they patronise the likes of J Brand and J. Ross yet just because Carol Thatcher is who she is, she was sacked. I hope she gets a better job on one of the other chanels, and we can see more of heron th4e box. I like her eccentricity and sense of humour. And I like Golliwogs too! Keep your spirits up Carol.
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I thoroughly enjoy The One Show and watch it most evenings. However I noticed on the show last Thursday that Jo Brand was very unfriendly, verging on hostile, to Carol Thatcher. I didn't think there was any need for her to have made a snide remark about the Thatcher government - it was inappropriate under the circumstances. I also thought Adrian Chiles was less than friendly with Carol Thatcher. Christine Bleakley is a marvellous, professional presenter and a breath of fresh air beside the grumpy Chiles. When I read about the remark Carol made I was shocked at her lack of sensitivity and understanding. She should have apologised. However I can't help remembering just how unpleasant the atmosphere seemed to be between her and Brand and Chiles. Made me wonder if the whole thing got ratcheted up by them which made Carol Thatcher dig her heels in and refuse to apologise. She's still in the wrong. However I'm not the only person who noticed how rude and unfriendly Brand and Chiles were towards her. An unpleasant and unprofessional situation all round.
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Supporters of Carol should also register a formal complaint here ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
One Show Bullies - you will not get away with it
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I am not surprised to hear that Jo Brand was involved in getting Carol Thatcher sacked, as I suspect that she harbours prejudice against the Thatcher name. I am more surprised to discover that Adrian Chiles was also involved. Having been a regular viewer of the One Show, I am now an ex-viewer. The BBC has shot itself in the foot yet again!
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i'm sure that carol thatcher's comment about the golliwog look was not in the least intended as a racist remark. for pete's sake when i was a child golliwogs were in all toy shops. if the word is used in jest to describe someone in private it's not like saying to someones face that they look like one, especially if they are not white skinned.
one of my grandchildren came home from playschool the other day singing ba ba pink sheep. my daughter remarked that it should be ba ba blacksheep. my grandson said that they were told not to say black. why are so many people, who obviously have very little else to do, trying to make out that so many of us are racists. in the real world the rest of us just want to survive all the rubbish that is dumped on us in this country and get on with our struggle to keep our jobs, eat, keep warm, run our vehicles and try to spare time for a little leisure. get a life.
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I'm a first time blogger incensed by the remarks and patronising tone of Jay Hunt today. How dare the BBC sack Carol Thatcher on the basis of a private remark-not on air.Whoever reported her should be sacked.Big Brother is alive and well and living at the BBC.
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Can someone please tell me what is wrong with the word golliwog, I mean it is a doll nothing more nothing less, it had to be taken off jam jars due to over sensitive people and their reactions.
I think it is all a load of twaddle what has happened to poor Carol, she was brilliant on the show, to be honest I think if they did ask her back which they won't as they are too stupid, she should tell them where to go, which could be Outer Mongolia for all I care now.
Although that would not be fair on the people who stay there.
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Jo Brand was extremely rude to Carol, who does Jo Brand think she is ??????? Shame on you One Show for allowing Carol to mix with the likes
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I do love the one show and I do not like to criticize, but I feel that the Carol Thatcher matter is out of all proportion. It looks to me as if someone did not like Carol Thatcher and that was the reason behind the complaint a personal dislike.
I think Great Britain should still have freedom of speech, and perhaps we are sometimes unkind when speaking of people ie as in paddy for irish, jock for scottish, people are not being racist especially if they are of a certain age when these terms where not meant to be derogatory
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I am moved to write because I am disappointed that so many of my fellow Britons do not understand the deep offence that ill judged, or racist comments, can make. Anyone who deviates from the majority in any society is subject to consistent taunts, 'jokes', insults, threats and violence. That is a sad flaw in human nature. Nerves can be touched easily in areas of this sort and understanding should be shown to those subject to these problems.
For my own part, I am, as a human being, offended when racist, sexist or generally offensive comments are made. I know that I have offended in the past and have been at pains to redress.
Carol Thatcher may, or may not, consider herself racist. Whether she likes it or not, she was a representative of an inclusive, multicultural and, above all, positive programme. The term 'Golliwog' meets none of those aims. A brief investigation into the origin of the term and character will confirm this to anyone.
The method by which the comments made their way from the Green Room is irrelevant, as that is, by the BBC's own description, a place for all those connected with the days output to gather. It is safe to state that none of those present would have gone into the room with an anti-Carol agenda given the remit of the programme and the context of the Green Room.
The person offended and with no apology is therefore the one wronged.
If Thatcher had public ally recognised the problems associated with the term, the offence caused and had unreservedly apologised, then I can see a very positive outcome for all concerned and Carol would have shown herself to be a thoughtful person well able to admit to a mistake borne only of a lack of understanding. Which of us can claim not to have been in that position?
As it stands, Carol Thatcher appears as an ignorant racist. What other conclusion can one come to given that she will not apologise.
The BBC has made the correct decision.
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Just heard on BBC News that Carol was NOT sacked from the One Show, but that she would not be asked back, if thats not being sacked, then please explain it.
This action from The One Show has made them look stupid.
Glad to hear that Carol will still be working for the BBC . Although I would imagine she would not want to go back to the One Show anyway. I agree with other comments, it was very obvious that Jo Brand did not like Carol, Adrian you should have stood up for Carol, Shame on you.
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I will no longer be watching the one show, Adrian child is BBC'c Gollum - SNEAKING!!
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I think that a few minutes slot to discuss the Carol Thatcher affair should appear on the One Show. We can get Adrian Chiles and Christines views and that of a neutral BBC commentator. I believe that Carol Thatcher was a popular contibutor to the show and deserves a hearing on the show that gave rise to the GOLLIWOG affair. It might be said that she can appear on the show again, but I am sure she would decline the offer.
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My wife collects 'Golliwogs' and she is very upset about how Carol has been treated.
So I have knited her a 'WHITE' Golliwog. Yes, she called it 'Carol'.
Its about that the BBC looked at how they work. The Queen only had a quick news flash. Yet she is responable for what the shop sells. The monies from the sales do go to her in a round about way.
I for one will not be watching the one show any more.
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Please pause a moment to read some impartial reporting:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/06/carol-thatcher-multiple-golliwog-remarks
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Are So it was a tittle tattling mindless minion who spilled the beans to a reporter eh , so now its getting clearer , Sack the minion and whoever it was who employed them.
A clean sweep Big Broom all gone .
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Have to agree entirely SaintDan, and as predicted , it wasn't a one off. As an employer you can't allow it to continue.
No matter that some people liked the public face of Carol Thatcher.
Any employer can't put up with her braying her racist views to guests in the background.
I feel it is poor the way that people above have personally condemned Adrian Chiles and Jo Brand above.
Carol Thatcher was a reasonable reporter, though her manner of 'spweech' made her almost unintelligable..not her fault I know. There are however plenty other good reporters out there.
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Would Chiles complain about an albino golliwog ie white.NO.its PC gone mad and we the licence fee payers should be listned to.
I have heard Jo Brand use worse language on TV,but then again she is a "STAR",so the BBC keep quite.
No more One Show for me.
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My wife and I also noticed the hostility emen ating from Jo Brand toward Carol Thatcher so we have no doubt on who snitched to the BBC Stasi.
We would also like to add that we think Christine is the lovielist and most natural presenteron TV. So what on earth persuaded her to allow her to let herself
be portrayed as some sort of Glamour Girl in
the Mail on Sunday Magazine. Come on Christine you are just not that sort of girl.
Gwenton
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I also think Christine is loveliest and most natural presenter on TV.
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Farewell one show - we shall not watch you again - though we will miss Christine
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Golly - Worthy Oriental Gentleman
My wife is black - my daughter mixed race.
Am I a racist to feel anger at how the BBC and fellow informants have lost their sense of humour
If our society now believes it acceptable to dismiss collegues for off the cuff conversational remarks said in a relaxed winding down atmoshere then the police state and big brother are now with us.
It is time to stop the rot, regain our sense of humour and accept that everyone is an individual and capable of upsetting someone all the time - this does not mean they should lose their job or be locked up.
The BBC needs to chill out
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Jo Brand and Adrian Chiles on the screen together, if that doesn't put you off your dinner I don't know what will!
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