Peel honoured at the BBC?

[french frank]

AK could never have been a 6M contender under the previous ridiculous controller.

He didn't have to be in the end since he'd been taken on by (BBC) Radio 3 and was reportedly pleased with that. Though Ric Blaxill was Head of Programmes at 6 Music from 2004 and, as I understand, it wasn't until he resigned that the ridiculous controller of whom you speak took over the full running of 6 Music from him, though s/he was already controller of both.

Most presenters accept that it goes with the job that they get hired and they get dropped. And that they get pushed around at the whim of their bosses, one might add. Not nice, but it's particularly a media (BBC) thing.

Totally agree that Peel would have been little more than mildly interested in having the wing of a building named after him.

[Parry1912]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17233677

Good grief! I suppose it was too much to expect it to be named after Sir Adrian Boult or another of the talented people who have worked for the BBC. No, let's name it after a disc-jockey.

[MrGongGong]

Good grief! I suppose it was too much to expect it to be named after Sir Adrian Boult or another of the talented people who have worked for the BBC. No, let's name it after a disc-jockey.

Are you always this "intelligent" or do you save it up for special occasions ??

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Good grief! I suppose it was too much to expect it to be named after Sir Adrian Boult or another of the talented people who have worked for the BBC. No, let's name it after a disc-jockey.

You do not say how Boult's connection to the actual studio concerned might be more pertinent than Peel's.

And would to Brian some of the "announcers" on Breakfast modelled their style on this particular "disc-jokey" (an epithet suggesting ignorance of Peel's work and influence) rather than on their preferred Chris Moyles!

[Paul Sherratt]

and anyway Parry, he's got a hall, already.

[Parry1912]

Are you always this "intelligent" or do you save it up for special occasions ??

Mr G, If you disagree with me then I must be right.

BTW, people are allowed to have their own opinions you know. It's very poor manners to have a hissy-fit and shake your pram whenever someone expresses a different view to yours.

"disc-jokey"

What?

and anyway Parry, he's got a hall, already.

and John Peel's got a stage at Glastonbury already.

[french frank]

Are you always this "intelligent" or do you save it up for special occasions ??

I think a more appropriate response might be that the wing is to provide the new home for Radio 1. Though some might then respond to that observation, What an insult! what hypocrisy! what a salve for guilty consciences! god, how angry that makes me! BBC, hang your heads in shame!

[Paul Sherratt]

>>and John Peel's got a stage at Glastonbury already

But that's only for a few days a year. Imo, we licence payers should be invited to suggest names all parts of the new construction.
' The Angela Rippon Bathroom Mirror ' for example.

[Paul Sherratt]

>>Just plain wrong and badly informed

Sometimes described as ' a lie ' , Global.

[MrGongGong]

Mr G, If you disagree with me then I must be right.

BTW, people are allowed to have their own opinions you know. It's very poor manners to have a hissy-fit and shake your pram whenever someone expresses a different view to yours.
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I wasn't being rude about someone who many of us have huge respect for and who tragically died far to soon.