Pots and kettles

The BBC famously asked Dame Mira Hess to audition for a solo recording of Beethoven, long after she was regarded as the world's most outstanding lady concert pianist, and patronised by members of the Royal Family!

They have never supported outstanding British classical performers with a chance to be recorded and heard nationally on radio or TV, an inexpensive and easy operation.
The BBC should follow the excellent example of the Australian ABC and now the Chinese National Broadcasting system, in encouraging the finest classical performers to audition and be heard and seen internationally.

In my opinion, those regional accents and awful, teenage,trashy female voices on the BBC world service news and heard by me in California, are a laughing stock.

Couldn't agree more Norman.
See my previous blogs:
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http://bit.ly/2fiODU

I went for one of the presenter jobs when The Culture Show first started and knew immediately, from the initial interview in front of the exec producers, that it was heading for a confused mess of a format and content. I'm honestly very glad I didn't get selected as the programme is nothing like it should be, or could've been.
Lauren Laverne (who I like in other shows) is completely out of her depth, and her moaning in the Guardian about people not liking her on the Culture Show because she's female is just crap. Her style is simply wrong for the programme.

I still see BBC2's majestic Late Show as the benchmark - edgy, serious, often silly and pretentious of course, but a decent stab at reflecting modern culture and arts with people who might actually know what they're talking about. And those involved in the arts respected it too.

It's hard to imagine BBC TV doing anything serious about the arts now. And now that the Proms are over, where's all the classical music output gone?

TP