Scintillating BBC grovelling to govt

[bogeyman]

I commend a more direct analysis from one of the BBC's public contributors:

Ha ha! Top stuff!

I don't know who Alex Clarke is, but I would like to shake his hand and buy him a pint.

[Sysman]

I commend a more direct analysis from one of the BBC's public contributors:

Only an 'expert' who's got rich off the taxpayer's teat could write such a self-congratulatory, self-aggrandizing puff for himself and his fellow bureacrats. Only the BBC, a self-appointed quango paid for by a compulsory tax would print it as 'serious news'.
Alex Clarke, Brora, Highlands

Wasn't he the "Doc" on Radio 1 (of all blurry stations) for many years, talking to a teenage audience? Ah yes, Alan Maryon-Davis

A real media junkie. Writes for wimmin's magazines too. That's always suspicious in a bloke.

Media career

He has also been a prolific writer and broadcaster on health matters in a parallel career spanning over 30 years. His broadcasting began as the regular guest doctor on the London independent radio station LBC in the mid-1970s. He then became the BBC Radio 1 'doc' in a regular slot called Stayin' Alive with DJ David ('Kid') Jensen. In the 1980s he presented a number of series on health for BBC Radio 4 and was a co-presenter, with doctors Graeme Garden and Gillian Rice, of BBC1's popular medical series Bodymatters. He wrote a weekly 'Dear Dr Alan' Q&A column in Woman magazine for 17 years and has written ten books on various health subjects for the general reader.

[expat]

Wasn't he the "Doc" on Radio 1 (of all blurry stations) for many years, talking to a teenage audience? Ah yes, Alan Maryon-Davis

A real media junkie. Writes for wimmin's magazines too. That's always suspicious in a bloke.

Well fingered. So he's just a public freeloader. Good thing people like that don't get any attention.

[bogeyman]

Well fingered. So he's just a public freeloader. Good thing people like that don't get any attention.

Quite so.

If I wrote for a Women's Magazine I'd probably write an article entitled:

"Stop flicking your bean over Tricia, you idle cow, and go and wash the dishes instead"