Sure. I'll be hitting Netflix for the next few days, no doubt. It's a point of principle though.But there around a zillion other channels around these days drood, and that next flex thingy !
I'd agree in that BBC1 AND BBC2 is a bit much all night no matter where sympathies lie.Sure. I'll be hitting Netflix for the next few days, no doubt. It's a point of principle though.
Also, there's no logic to it. Someone tuning into BBC4 to watch the OGWT isn't going to be offended by the lack of respect for Prince Philip. Similarly, why should someone watching the coverage of Princel Philip's death on BBC1 and BBC2 care if other people don't want to?
Anyway, I've made my point and don't wish to derail the thread any further.
He was in the Navy so mainly indoors.Did he have to go outdoors to do that?
A lot of people seem to be over dependent on the idiot box.bbc1 and bbc2....really.
RIP
And ITV, and BBC4 off air. It’s good that those interested can spend the evening watching a programme about him but how can anyone watch four channels at once?bbc1 and bbc2....really.
RIP
What’s idiotic about watching “Gardeners’ World”, amongst many other fine programmes? Perhaps I’m just not intelligent enough .A lot of people seem to be over dependent on the idiot box.
Something positive and unexpected might come of this- the features of his childhood that were previously airbrushed out of his story, like his mother’s psychotic illness, the path she chose in her later years, his part- German ancestry and his experience as a stateless person will in 2021 have resonance with a hell of a lot of people. Some people in power lead a life that is essentially extractive and really deserve no honour in death and I won’t name them here. His life is very different from that. I hope that some politicians, apart from extending their sympathy will keep their own personal interests back from these events.A life of total service to his wife, and adopted Nation, well-lived, for a very long time; not bad for a nominally-titled, but penniless, refugee, reviled as a 'foreigner' well into his 30s by the Establishment even despite his Naval service even then. And his Naval service is worth reading about.
We shall not see his like again.