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04-02-2006, 04:53 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 4/2/06 16:16, in article , "Kay"
wrote:

Sacha writes
May I suggest that all those who feel strongly enough, write to the Beeb's
gardening programme department and insist that we have less gurning TV
presenters slapping each others backs; that the names of plants are shown on
the screen and that Alan and Diarmuid are not allowed within a mile of each
other. AND that if Diarmuid is going to enter his own design again, he does
not get loads of free publicity on the subject.
If we don't make/repeat our points now, it will be too late when Chelsea
does open!

I'd father rather Alan stuck to gardening programmes (which I tend not
to watch) than he should leak into Last Night of the Proms,
documentaries and all sorts of other programmes ;-)

I wonder if this is because of his high profile generally, or because he is
under contract to the Beeb so is used as much as possible - or both, of
course. I don't find him as annoying as other people seem to but there is a
problem in the public's perception of a person as being a presenter in one
slot or the other, I think.
I wasn't suggesting that Alan should not present Chelsea but that we should
not be subjected to that teeth achingly arch 'play' stuff that went on
between them last year or the gimmick of Chris Beardshaw riding his bike
around the exhibition gardens the night before, just when anxious exhibitors
most wanted to be left alone to finish, too! IOW, more about the gardens
and the plants and nothing about the personality of the presenters or
allotments in Cheshire. Chelsea and just Chelsea would be my personal plea.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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