The Rev Richard Coles leaving Saturday Live shows how self-defeating the BBC has become ✒️ FionaLondonarts
March 24, 2023 5:25 pmYou’d have thought the BBC would by now be better, classier, when it comes to losing the services of a much-loved presenter. It has, after all, had ample practice at the matter and the awkward echoes of’s recent much-lamented departure from Radio 2 are still ringing loudly in corporation ears.
But no, here they go again, making a hash of things and losing hard-won audience loyalty, with their botched and belated announcement that tomorrow will be the last time theColes, that intriguing 1980s pop star-turned vicar, has been the classy captain at the helm of the good shipfor 12 years now and even the BBC is not so daft as to be unable to spot a good thing when they find it sitting in one of their presenter’s chairs.
Coles himself, vicarly to the last, remarked ruefully that “a gentler process would have been nice… I’d rather have had a longer goodbye to listeners”. He deserved all this and much more, as what he has achieved onThe unavoidable staple of every middle-class Saturday morning, the programme is a 90-minute compendium of guest interviews, chat and family stories.
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