On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Mike Lyle wrote:

The best person to front 'Last Night of the Proms'??

I thought about this at the time; and decided that for such a merry
low-brow occasion he was by no means a bad choice. These days people
get so few chances to dip their toes into "classical" music that
anything which dispels the "élitist" image must be a good idea.
(Hell, it could have been Bill Oddie or Sandi Toksvig!)

Don't jeer at Bill Oddie. He *is* musically educated.

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