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.

I wasn't jeering (too strong a word, but let it pass) at his
education, or even less the man himself, of whom I quite approve, but
his telly personality. He doesn't _relax_ me. Sandi T feels tense to
me, too.

Hmm yes, I see what you mean. ;-)

David
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