Fans of the much-loved radio presenter Steve Wright – who died suddenly last Monday – have vented their fury after the BBC’s Breakfast News programme discussed an upcoming tribute to the DJ – while mistakenly showing a photo of a completely different radio personality.
On the magazine news program Sunday morning, presenter Luxmy Gopal introduced a forthcoming tribute to Wright, who helmed a radio show for the BBC for four decades, but the screen flashed to a photo of equally familiar former BBC radio DJ Simon Bates.
Gopal told viewers: “Tributes continue to pour in from the world of radio for the legendary DJ Steve Wright. We will speak to his co-host Janey Lee Grace later on in the programme.”
Her co-host Roger Johnson spotted the on-air error and quickly said: “That’s not Steve Wright by the way in case you were wondering, that’s Simon Bates.”
Viewers were quick to...
On the magazine news program Sunday morning, presenter Luxmy Gopal introduced a forthcoming tribute to Wright, who helmed a radio show for the BBC for four decades, but the screen flashed to a photo of equally familiar former BBC radio DJ Simon Bates.
Gopal told viewers: “Tributes continue to pour in from the world of radio for the legendary DJ Steve Wright. We will speak to his co-host Janey Lee Grace later on in the programme.”
Her co-host Roger Johnson spotted the on-air error and quickly said: “That’s not Steve Wright by the way in case you were wondering, that’s Simon Bates.”
Viewers were quick to...
- 2/18/2024
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
His take on Shakespeare’s tragedy tapped the zeitgeist, but Zeffirelli’s whole body of work pulsated with an irresistible camp and romanticism
Franco Zeffirelli was the mainstream maestro of high culture on screens big and small who dashingly made his international movie reputation with an exuberant and accessible adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in 1968; this had some pretty trad doublet-and-hose stuff and featured the syrupy “Love” theme composed for the film by Nino Rota which was to become notorious as the music for Simon Bates’s regular tearjerking Our Tune feature on Radio One.
But there were also muscular and athletic performances from a bright-eyed young cast, vigorous and enjoyable playing all round and bold location work. The year before, Zeffirelli had directed Richard Burton and Liz Taylor in another Shakespeare adaptation: The Taming of the Shrew: clever casting of course, but it was the honeyglow-sunlit romanticism of...
Franco Zeffirelli was the mainstream maestro of high culture on screens big and small who dashingly made his international movie reputation with an exuberant and accessible adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in 1968; this had some pretty trad doublet-and-hose stuff and featured the syrupy “Love” theme composed for the film by Nino Rota which was to become notorious as the music for Simon Bates’s regular tearjerking Our Tune feature on Radio One.
But there were also muscular and athletic performances from a bright-eyed young cast, vigorous and enjoyable playing all round and bold location work. The year before, Zeffirelli had directed Richard Burton and Liz Taylor in another Shakespeare adaptation: The Taming of the Shrew: clever casting of course, but it was the honeyglow-sunlit romanticism of...
- 6/15/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Food and Drink is due to return on the BBC next year. MasterChef star Michel Roux Jr will host the new version, which will return to BBC Two for six episodes in 2013. The original series ran on BBC Two from 1982 to 2001. Simon Bates, Jilly Goolden, Oz Clarke and Michael Barry were among the stars of the first run. The BBC stated that Roux Jr will help viewers take on recipes with a host of celebrity chefs, while also examining food trends, consumer issues and other debates and discussions. "It is an honour to be involved in the exciting re-launch of Food and Drink," said Roux Jr. "The original programme inspired many and with Britain's appreciation for good food having grown so much in the last 30 years, I am looking forward to exploring fantastic food and drink with old and new friends." Janice Hadlow, controller of BBC Two, said: (more)...
- 9/5/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
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