HairyHammer 5:59 Mon May 13
Brian Waldon has left the world this weekend
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I remember him very strongly he spoke funny I think he said his R's like Johnny Ross but he was a pretty decent interviewer.
Fucking flabbergasted he was still alive tbh, I thought he was much older.
R.I.P Brian Walden.
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Gavros
6:15 Mon May 13
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I would have thought he'd been long dead by now.
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Any Old Iron
6:12 Mon May 13
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When you look back to '72 it was quite a ballsy thing to do and pick Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride as the theme tune of a politics show. I couldn't believe my ears when I first watched the show. I thought someone must have put the wrong music on.
But Waldon was alright as an interviewer. Better than the likes of Marr.
The king of course though is Brillo. Such a shame he's jacking it in soon.
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riosleftsock
3:21 Mon May 13
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Branded
Emma is a bit hit and miss. Sometimes she's a typical liberal elite group-thinker.
Then she does a really hard hitting interview and destroys her guest (left or right) without raising her voice.
She's not bad looking either.
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munkyfunk
1:59 Mon May 13
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Lowermarsh
That is one of the tunes that made me pick up a guitar.
Leslie west my favourite guitarist of all time..
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BRANDED
12:15 Mon May 13
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Emma Barnett is really good. Obviously does her homework.
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Eddie B
12:13 Mon May 13
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riosleftsock 11:41 Mon May 13
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Andrew Neil is a bloody good interviewer.
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BRANDED
12:07 Mon May 13
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RIP
Different times. The interviewees didnt think they were being stitched up and in general interviewers didn’t point out the most glaring hypocrisies. Nowadays it’s just a joust to avoid saying anything of note.
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Godwinson
12:03 Mon May 13
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lowermarshhammer 9:18 Mon May 13
Ha ha. My experience too.
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riosleftsock
11:41 Mon May 13
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Compare then and now.
We had Brian Walden and Robin Day among others.
Now its Tinsel tits Davies, Toilets Maguire and Toenails Robsinson.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
11:33 Mon May 13
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He was a superb political interviewer, tough, persistent and fair, who rarely, if ever, allowed his own beliefs to lead him down the road to bias.
R.I.P. Mr Walden.
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Son of Sam
11:12 Mon May 13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqWqCuHR0Og
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cholo
11:02 Mon May 13
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Coffee 9:22 Mon May 13
I knew I recognised the name but just couldn't picture the man, then I followed your YouTube link and all those Sunday afternoon memories came flooding back and knew exactly who it was.
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ChillTheKeel
10:50 Mon May 13
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Takashi Miike 8:43
Took words from mouth.
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Eddie B
10:34 Mon May 13
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Awound the wagged wock, the wagged waccal wan
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Coffee
9:22 Mon May 13
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Here you go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2dpq4sExgs
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lowermarshhammer
9:18 Mon May 13
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I used to run in from outside as a kid to switch on the theme tune, crank the volume up on the telly when it came on, then switch it off as soon as he was on.
I'm sure he was probably good but just not very interesting when you were 6.
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Coffee
9:12 Mon May 13
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His analytical brain combined with a gift for communication and rare generosity in understanding political opponents -- he had previously been a Labour MP -- is what set him apart.
This was his reading of the Thatcher years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMba2HjWaUY
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Takashi Miike
8:43 Mon May 13
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the best political presenter ever, for me, and the greatest theme tune
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Coffee
8:22 Mon May 13
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I also thought he'd died years ago. One of the very best political interviewers of all time in Britain.
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HairyHammer
6:06 Mon May 13
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Actually his R's were fine he just spoke in a slight Brummy accent and said things with a weird yet enticing drawl.
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