I gave a talk on the Weather the other day to a group in Richmond, Surrey
and after a very enthusiastic response with plenty of interest in my
display a lady came up to speak to me. She apparently was responsible for
BBC TV weather in the 70s and 80s.
I said to her well you have seen how enthusiastic the public can be on the
Weather if it is put across in the right way. Yet I said these days in the
media time is cut for the forecast and it is often hurried to make way for
programme trailers etc. She agreed and despaired of the modern trends which
brings us back to the initial post re Barry Norman.
On a slightly different point it is amazing that a programme on astronomy
"The Sky at Night" should continue to run after so many years and continue
into this "fast food- flaunt what you have got"- style age yet no comparable
programme exists for meteorology unless you count the daily weather
forecasts. I firmly believe the Weather could be made into one of the
greatest programmes of all if it was done in the right way.
Ian Currie-Coulsdon
www.frostedearth.com

TudorHgh" wrote in message
...
" We get the television we deserve and what we are getting today is
c**p - visual and verbal fast food that builds in its consumers not
mental muscle but mental fat. "



Not quite sure why we *deserve* the rubbish served up. Maybe by
having
watched stuff like Big Brother in demonstrably large numbers. And
unfortunately, as some American once said, no-one went broke
underestimating
public taste. But the BBC cannot use this excuse, not being funded by
adverts.
Good old Daily Mail, though. Can't even print a rather harmless word
like
"crap" without asterisks. On the other hand, Barry Norman needn't have
used
it.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.