In message <480b2b23$0$47127$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net>, 
Oxymel of Squill  writes
>but has anyone ever heard anything so screamingly funny as Prescott's
>'bulimia' ?
>
>
I still think it's just a way to publicise his memoirs.

Invent some daft ailment and watch the idiots buy the book.

-- 
Edward Cowling   Vote for Ken - Give him a third term !!

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:05:08 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
 wrote:

>even today a book has a reasonably long gestation period, and this 
>bulimia thing is being revealed as if it were a new revelation; I'd have 
>expected something like that to have leaked out earlier, if there is a 
>book coming out. (_Is_ there a book coming out?)
Of course there's a book coming out.  That's the only reason anyone
comes on R4.  Without all these book-pushers half the programmes
wouldn't exist.

Tiddy Ogg.
http://www.tiddyogg.co.uk

August West wrote:
> Robert Carnegie  writes:
>
>> (Politican's biography, however, is difficult for the BBC to
>> synergise with, because of the bias issue.)
>
> That'll be why they serialised "Shagger" Clarke's diaries, then?

Benn's ramblings and Blunkett's shallow tosh got an awful lot or air-time -
aren't we due for another diary reading from Wedgie?
Will ROBBIE get a mention?

On Apr 24, 1:27 pm, "Clive G" <okeydo...@f2s.com-nospam> wrote:
> August West wrote:
> > Robert Carnegie  writes:
>
> >> (Politican's biography, however, is difficult for the BBC to
> >> synergise with, because of the bias issue.)
>
> > That'll be why they serialised "Shagger" Clarke's diaries, then?
>
> Benn's ramblings and Blunkett's shallow tosh got an awful lot or air-time > aren't we due for another diary reading from Wedgie?
> Will ROBBIE get a mention?

I think David Blunkett's memoirs may have been nominated by the Tories
- did their party a lot of good, I should think.  The same may go for
Tony Benn.  And as for Alan Clarke on the other hand is... well, I
don't need to tell you about him.  But without actually adding up, I
think we must be spared a lot of books by politicians on the BBC and
other regulated broadcasters... they may get a spot on _Start the
Week_ and that's it mostly.  Or, for various reasons, _Woman's Hour_.
And STW is a three-against-one grilling.  Or four-to-one.  Either that
or _Midweek_ (surely not?!) had a splendid, inspiring session the
other week when one of Tony Blair's people had a book about the
Northern Ireland peace process but everyone else in the room queued up
to take him to task over the Iraq war.  Well done BBC, more please.

Robert Carnegie wrote:
>
> I think David Blunkett's memoirs may have been nominated by the Tories
> - did their party a lot of good, I should think.  The same may go for
> Tony Benn.  And as for Alan Clarke on the other hand is... well, I
> don't need to tell you about him.  But without actually adding up, I
> think we must be spared a lot of books by politicians on the BBC and
> other regulated broadcasters... they may get a spot on _Start the
> Week_ and that's it mostly.  Or, for various reasons, _Woman's Hour_.
> And STW is a three-against-one grilling.  Or four-to-one.  Either that
> or _Midweek_ (surely not?!) had a splendid, inspiring session the
> other week when one of Tony Blair's people had a book about the
> Northern Ireland peace process but everyone else in the room queued up
> to take him to task over the Iraq war.  Well done BBC, more please.

More Alastair Campbell? Remember he was given three hours of free prime-time
publicity to advertise his spinny scriblings - unchallanged.

...and no one gets a serious 'grilling' on STW, it's probably in the
contract.

Clive G wrote:
> Robert Carnegie wrote:
> >
> > I think David Blunkett's memoirs may have been nominated by the Tories
> > - did their party a lot of good, I should think.  The same may go for
> > Tony Benn.  And as for Alan Clarke on the other hand is... well, I
> > don't need to tell you about him.  But without actually adding up, I
> > think we must be spared a lot of books by politicians on the BBC and
> > other regulated broadcasters... they may get a spot on _Start the
> > Week_ and that's it mostly.  Or, for various reasons, _Woman's Hour_.
> > And STW is a three-against-one grilling.  Or four-to-one.  Either that
> > or _Midweek_ (surely not?!) had a splendid, inspiring session the
> > other week when one of Tony Blair's people had a book about the
> > Northern Ireland peace process but everyone else in the room queued up
> > to take him to task over the Iraq war.  Well done BBC, more please.
>
> More Alastair Campbell? Remember he was given three hours of free prime-time
> publicity to advertise his spinny scriblings - unchallanged.
>
> ...and no one gets a serious 'grilling' on STW, it's probably in the
> contract.

Do listen, though.  It's archived for RealPlayer at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek_20080331.shtml

The sinner in fact is Jonathan Powell, and his inquisitors are Misha
Glenny, Mark Ravenhill, Maggie Gee, and of course Andrew Marr himself
- I /think/ everyone had a square go at Powell in their turn, you'd
want to wouldn't you.  I think Glenny and Powell got a bit more than
average share of the programme, so, without checking, it should be
about halfway through - say 20 minutes - that they are all going "But
what about Iraq then?"