Friday February 27, 2009

Person of the Week - Gail Trimble

A week ago no one had heard of her except the followers of University Challenge . She led her team, Corpus Christie Oxford to win the series. There then followed some rather unpleasant comments about her which I thought were totally out of order. I think it is great she has managed to lead that team and amass the amount of knowledge that I think gave her the all time highest tally of point in the series. The funny thing about this story is that a men's magazine called Nutz contacted her brother ( I don't know how they knew how to do that ) and asked him to provide them with her email address so they could contact her to discuss being in their magazine - which was promised to be 'tasteful'. He declined.

Thatcher's last days

Lindsay Duncan was excellent as Margaret Thatcher in a TV drama last night on BBC. It charted her last days as the Tories kicked her out of office and replaced her with John Major. There were loads of well known supporting actors who also did a great job, the actor playing her husband was especially good. It has been announced she is going to be Doctor Who's sidekick in a program to be screened this year. There is a little more information on the Thatcher program here . The program did not act out the part where Thatcher was driven away from No Ten. The ghostly frozen image of her face behind the glass of her Jag was something to behold.

R.I.P Wendy Richards

After her third battle with cancer Wendy Richards died yesterday . She spent her later years as Pauline Fowler in Eastenders a soap on BBC TV. I must admit it was not my favourite TV program except when Phil and Grant Mitchell knocked seven bells out of each other - a regular occurance when other storylines had dried up. Wendy was also well known as Miss Brahmes in "Are you being served?" a comedy series based in a department store again on BBC TV. Her last TV role as Mrs Crump in Marple: A Pocket Full Of Rye.