What did you think of The One Show? Guest: Freddie Flintoff
Adrian and Christine were joined by cricketer Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff.
Kaye Adams was in Birmingham speaking to some of those caught up in one of the IRA's deadliest bomb attacks 35 years ago.
One of our One Show daredevils - Mike Dilger or Dom Littlewood will be riding a motorbike around the Wall of Death for Children in Need.
Christopher Biggins spoke to other daredevils to find out why oh why they do it.
Mike Dilger is also going head to head with Miranda Krestovnikoff this week as they each try to talk to animals. Yesterday Miranda 'spoke' to a woodpecker and tonight Mike was in Cumbria nattering to a Natterjack Toad.
- Animal impersonations - phone them in!
- Do you know your toads from your newts? Play our animal noises quiz.
And Gyles Brandreth explored Piccadilly Circus as part of our series looking at the places on the Monopoly board.
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lousy camera work on the story last night, the camera was up peoples noses then in ear holes , it was very hard to concentrate on the story or people talking when the camera man appears to be trying to bat away a fly.
it was a very good story but i switched off i needed to vomit.
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oh, it was the security story that had the really badddddddddd camera work.
question ...why was the camera man hiding behing a tree? to help in the future may i suggest that he would get a better shot in frony of it. why was he twizzleing? why .......
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I think The One Show is one of the best new programs around. I t does however annoy me that so called educated reporters etc cannot tell the difference between the words Accept and Except and in what context to use them. If you watch the reports you will notice this on a regular basis. It is not just on this program that this happens regularly but thro out all tv reporting.
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Yes is the camera crew going to be sobber tonight or do we all need our sick bags ???
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i think christine needs to make an apology as it was afghanistan soldier janes was killed in NOT iraq!!
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Ivor Knight..blog 3...new program?
been away for a week....please bring me up to date,,,how is london?
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I have to say I do feel sorry for Gordon Brown in this case because I think hes tried to the right thing.
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adrian has said sorry,,,please no campaign against him for one small mistake.
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Has Freddie been on the red wine?
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freddie.....a legend in his own mind,,,honoured ny the queen,,quite silly
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I always enjoy the show but am disappointed in that tonight no one seemed to have picked up on the 'remarkable' quality of the recording Mrs Janes apparently made of her private conversation with the Prime Minister? Maybe the Sun or even the BBC are involved in this character assassination? My handwriting is much worse than Mr Browns so I print everything - after spellchecking of course.
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Mike Dilger "the toad whisperer"
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So can we now have Kaye Adams admit that the BBC unremittingly bias toward the Left no matter how wrong they get it the BBC will always take the heat for the Left and will always blow up about any story however small that can be spun negatively for the Right.
The fact is Brown was completely careless when writing the letter and for not proof reading it and his office is chaotic because no one else proof read the letter. And what the BBC won't report is that he told Mrs. Janes on the telephone that he had spelled her name correctly despite the obvious truth that he didn't and also goes to show how heartless he was during that telephone call to mount a defence instead of a giving grovelling apology. It took him 3 attempts to get it right. The BBC has also chosen not to publicise the full transcript of the telephone call and the dismissive replies he made to Mrs. Janes. Nor has the BBC reported the disgraceful Labour spin campaign to smear Mrs Janes as politically motivated.
The BBC has tried its best to do nothing other than spin this as a sympathy story for Brown's disability. Are you kidding! Compared to the death of a serviceman who was only where he was because of Brown's orders. The BBC are reaching new levels of despicable behaviour.
It's also supremely rich for Adams to claim that the Sun are misleading when the BBC in all areas of news self-censors itself based on its liberal agenda. You won't see on the BBC News any suggestion of radical Islamic connections to the guy who went on a rampage at Fort Hood. In fact any act of Islamic terrorism around the world is never reported by the BBC to have any connections to fundamental Islamism. Israel is always in the wrong - where was the BBC's apology when it was conclusively shown that the IDF did not bomb a school and kill children during the recent conflict and for which the BBC crucified Israel?
This has to be one of the most despicable and inhuman things The One Show has done in its short and illustrious history of making excuses for Labour.
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....Mrs Janes,,,,,I think she has been very silly indeed.Mr Brown made a mistake in the way he wrote the letter but meant no harm.
i am sure she will now want to draw a line under it because the public is showing sympathy for gordon.
i would have thought that mrs janes would be more interested in honouring her son rather than setting up gordon brown.
she is showing disrespect to her son.
who sets up a recording device to record in such quality.....could it be she was expecting an important call ?
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lab-rat........what a surprise lab-rat jumping on the bash labour bandwagon.
he is as consistent with that as i am in calling the bbc for londoncentric bias,,,,,,,,my flight was 12 minutes late today..i blame gordon brown
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[at] Lab-rat, you're hilarious!
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I am utterly disgusted that the BBC uses my licence fee to fund the One Show, a so-called "entertainment" programme which is in reality a subtle (and sometimes no so subtle) propaganda tool used to support the current government. Last week we had a blatant "Support Tony Blair" item and today we have a similarly blatent item supporting Gordon Brown's political letter writing ineptness. This viewer will use his own sanction and will therefore not watch this programme again.
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms that an supposed entertainment programme is used for political purposes. I hope this email is passed on to the BBC Trust who I hope will investigate the comments therein.
Does anyone out there agree?
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radical Islamic connections ...lab-rat are you saying the guy who went on the rampage in fort hood did it because of radical islamic connections?
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Interesting prog tonight-I am sure we all have every sympathy for Jamie James's mother but it does seem that she has been set up by The Sun in its vendetta against Gordon Brown.
Kay Adams seems to be on everything lately-she was covering Mathew Wrights show on channel 5 this morning-she is underrated as a presenter-but I suppose being experienced but not that young or glamorous is a hindrance to professional women on BBC .Birmingham pub bombs were 35 years ago-can you believe it?-it seemed to be a cold gloomy time with power cuts three day weeks etc-the only celebrities were union leaders-seems like a different planet now-Adrian did seem envious of Freddies trip to the palace and I am sure he thinks SIR Adrian Chiles is achievable.
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jbatpersonal...first of all it is a blog not an email...if you want to complain then you need to do it through the normal email/complaint system.
i do not agree with you apart from i do not think an entertainment show that is supposed to highlight the regions should not be covering such a story.
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Reference Mr Brown’s letter to Mrs Janes
It seems to me that everyone seems to be missing the point. There is little doubt that the Prime Minister takes the trouble to write personally in these circumstances and this is to be applauded. However, it is obvious that mistakes can easily cause offence – so it is essential that letters are checked before they are posted. The real worry is that his staff are so uneducated that they cannot spell and they are helping to run the country!
Alan Shine
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I think in relation to the "Gordon Brown letter" discussion on tonights show, that if any other partially sighted citizen had been critisised in this manner it would be a very different story, our PM took the time out of what will be the busiest diary in Britain to hand write a letter, it's discriminatory to sensationalize his disability in this manner!! Do people think that because it's Gordon Brown it's OK? Well it's not! Mistakes happen as was demonstrated by your own presenter this evening, has he now to be taken to task about his reading skills??
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Alan Shine.........from what i understand to be true mr brown is the only PM to ever write letters to parents of our lost hero's.
i would much rather get a letter that was heart felt,honest and contained mistakes than a letter checked and checked again by a team of spin doctors....
respect to you mr brown..and i say that at the moment as someone unlikely to vote labour at the next election
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donnie293..the sun newspaper has an agenda,,i do not hear true blue lab rat being critical of that,,,i am sure he knows that mr brown has been wrongly attacked but never misses a labour bash chance.
this should not be party political,,,mrs janes should show some honour.
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Re 23 I agree and I think The Sun has misjudged public opinion on this one.
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Whilst I very much enjoy the One Show I am not too happy about reopening old wounds.(Now there is peace at last). However, being a Brummy I feel it right to point out the incorrect report by Kaye Adams stating the Birmingham Six had been wrongly imprisoned. I remember quite well, having many Police officer friends, that the Court had no choice but to release the accused due to insufficient evidence in the original trial (technical error). The error which brought this about was the fact that the Police had a lot more evidence they could have used but believed they had put forward sufficient to secure a conviction.
One of the problems with this Countries legal system is the fact that human memories are very short and six years later much of what was seen and said in a Court at time plus added to the mellowing of time,
a review of the case will be more flawed than six years or so previously.
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what a dreadful site to use, have adrian or christine tried to use it , i simply wanted to say about 1 hour ago how unforgiving and judgemental christine was when discussing browns mistakes, with his support staff it should never happened i agree, but then only the usual dizzy smile from christine when the man himself (adrian) has to apologies because of an even more unforgiveable mistake, and armed with an even bigger team of present advisors and promts. sorry about any typos but in this case it matters not!
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martin roberts ....how we all see things differently.
you thought christine judgemental and unforgiving,hardly pro labour.
lab rat see's it all as a vote labour show.
i think it sad we live in a country where you can write a letter in good faith then be put to the sword by a disgusting rag like the sun.
the sun...home of page 3,,,read all about it !!!!!
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hokeykokeyalex,
You are right about the Sun.
Of course they would never be insensitive about someone's death. Except in the case of Hillsborough, where they blamed the Liverpool fans. Or the case of of the sinking of the Belgrano where they used the headline 'Gotcha' to report the sinking of a ship with the loss of over 300 souls. Or, indeed, the case of Marc Vivien Foe - the Cameroonian player who passed away the pitch which the Sun thought appropriate to report with a picture of the man as he lay dead.
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Much as I dislike G. Brown I think that comments made on the One Show should be accurate. Brown has been criticized for his letter to Mrs Janes, son of Janie, how come Christine thinks he was killed in Iraq?
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#27 Martin Roberts
How strange to criticse others for their mistakes and then apologise for your typos.
As far as Christine being judgemental, surely she was only reading from a prepared script and the blame may lie elsewhere. Anyway, the error was corrected - surely that's what should have happened and did.
We ALL make mistakes.
Mrs Janes.
When this story first broke, I had real sympathy with this woman,but having watched the full BBC interview on News 24, I now find myself sympathising with Gordon Brown.
In my view context is all and I do believe the man had the best of intentions at heart.This furore is now getting out of hand, thanks to the Sun and its manipulation of the whole sorry tale.
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26-"innocent until proved guilty"-the time was well before police and criminal evidence act when many confessions were beaten out of people by the police anyway. I do believe compensation payments were made to the Birmingham 6 which says something.
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chocolatedog.....i remember the things you mention,,i am a liverpool fan and didnt want to mention that fact and the hillsborough deaths for fear of people saying that was my reason for calling it a rag.
i read many papers and it is one of the worst,,,,and so popular as well.
it is the uk best seller...i am proud to say i think it is rubbish.....
was it christine or adrian that made tonights mistake?
adrian said sorry,,,i watched the show but must have been asleep at that bit.
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djwhatsoccurin.blog 32,
i was going to write a similar blog and i applaud yours.
we all know how bad the police could be,,,and given that blogger john rowe had lots of police friends i am sure he heard of the police side of things.
my belief is that mant hundreds of people for years were found guilty for crimes they did not commit.
those peopl were probably well known in their own area's as criminals and the police used any tactic they could to put them away......but it was wrong.
just how close was life on mars?
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Agree with comments made in both posts 21 & 23 re the quality of staff/checking (21) and also respect for writing the letters (23). I am not a fan of the PM, but the media furore is distasteful (as is the consideration that he has anything less than utmost respect for the families suffering losses in Afghanistan) and one which I hope we can move on from quickly.
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blog 34,,,...i put mant instead of many,,,,,,before the sun get a blogger to complain i ham sorrie velly sowwie for making a mistake,boy have we become a nation of build em up knock em downers
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sky_viewer.35... agree....
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it is obvious to anyone reading this blog just how good and interesting mr flintoff was tonight,,,,,,,,was he flogging a book?
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Re 6: In a nutshell, essential moments to relive on the iplayer: Adrian falling apart on Friday when meeting all 43 Miss World contestants, and the enchanting Miranda Krestovnikoff in a forest drumming/talking to woodpeckers last night.
Re 33: It was Christine who said Iraq instead of Afghanistan.
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sky_viewer....ummmh christine,,,doesnt matter,, the one show keeps saying the uk when it means london....
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Hokey nice to have you back!you have been missed !have you caught up with all the blogs since you were away?rather interesting !!
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hello highland fling...i like to think we all make a contribution and make it interesting.
gonna read them all tomorrow...looking forward to it,,,dont think i will bother with the show,not half as interesting as people like you,jadedoldie,astroplums,wigglediggle,johnholyer,sky-viewer,djwhatsoccurrin etc etc etc.missed you all.
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goodnight for now......I WISH MRS JANE'S PEACE AND I ASK HER TO LEAVE IT BE.........
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I am sure that gordon Brown meant no insult to Mrs Janes. Mr Brown's letter might have carried a little more sincerity had it not been for the fact that he wrote a similar letter of condolence to the Chelsea captain John Terry after he'd missed a penalty in the European Cup Final.
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Hello hokeykokyalex, welcome back.
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I watched last nights show about the birmingham pub bombings with great interest. I was on the jury at the pub bomb trial and have written a book about my experiences serving on the jury and many years spent researching the whole subject, not least the release of the six. legalities stop me from getting my book published or from casting my opinions. I recently met chris mullin to point out many discrepancies that I found after reading his book "error of judgement", particularly In the section where he claims to have met "the real bombers" .His book is constantly being put up as being the truth without any of its contents being questioned.
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46-I still think that the important thing is that they were ultimately " not guilty" but I appreciate no-one is ever found innocent in court-if a "technicality" was enough to sway the verdict then much of the blame lies with West midland police who were renown for taking a "life on mars" approach to detective work in the 1970s-the Carl Bridgwater newspaper boy murder was very similar.
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ADRIAN CHILES personality free, how come he was given a chat show? they were moaning about Browns duff letter yet they couldn't even get the theatre of war right.! Chiles is Mr. Potato Head, he has tried finance and sport on T.V. i even saw him in a frock doing racing at ascot recently with Willie Carson.
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48 Brian
He's had the 'chat' show for the last 2 years - why complain now?
Why do so many of you get so bitter and twisted when someone makes what is obviously a mistake? Have you never made a mistake?
Constructive criticism welcomed.
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17 jbatpersonal; In a nutshell no I don't agree with you.
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Post 17 I dont agree with you either!
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jbatpersonal ...oh dear,,,i think that IS a no
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I feel the irony of the afghanistan-iraq gaffe has really been underplayed. Surely we need some manner of panel or special guest (with no real insight into the issue) to pass judgement on the, what was it, disrespect that Chiles and the one with all the teeth made by not getting something as simple as the country in which a service man died in. I can only thing of the abject horror and pain that the family must be suffering with because of their mistake.
Grow up the world, and grow up the One Show. One mans error should not be used to plough his face into a steaming vat of vitriol, yet that is the bandwagon that the show jumped on. Frankly, a media hate campaign levelled against the show is the very least we should expect for one minor insignificant error, after all, isnt that what the media, the One Show included, have done to the PM.
You people make me want to vomit with irrational fury, just like certain newspapers and prime time television shows do about totally irrational things.
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Well I know what I have worked out how come when the media says its bad that the sun gave her publicity about the letter then procced to discuse it again on national tv. Giving the sun even more publicity go figure.
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Re: Mrs Janes, The Sun and the Prime Minister. Has she been paid by the Sun?
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re #55: R McKenna,
You ask, "Has Mrs Janes been paid by the Sun?" No, she has not been paid by the sun or anyone else.
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Wish I knew where Christine got that silver top from that she was wearing on Friday's show!???!!
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