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Thread #124461   Message #2750263
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
22-Oct-09 - 11:27 AM
Thread Name: BS: BNP on question time
Subject: RE: BS: BNP on question time
To put the business about booing in context:

When David Dimbleby was announcing future guests first up was the next week, and he mentioned Griffin, which got a good boo. Then he mentioned the following week and Jacqueline Smith's name came up - another boo. Then an announcement that John Sergeant, a former TV journalist who'd made some memorable appearances in Strictly Come Dancing, would be a guest, and everyone cheered - and Dimbleby mutters "this is getting like a pantomime", where that kind of audience participation is traditional. After the first boo it turns into a bit of a joke,