12-09-2022, 05:05 PM
(12-09-2022, 04:04 PM)Radio_man Wrote: This article claims that Andrew Marr had already provided the narration for the tribute programme to The Queen that was shown on Friday at 8pm on BBC 1, but that he was dropped in favour of Kirsty Young "at the last minute".
Quote:His agent said “the BBC apparently believes that hearing his voice would upset its viewers” and it replaced him with Kirsty Young at the last minute.www.theguardian.com
I'm surprised that he was surprised that he was replaced as the voice of the tribute programme having left the BBC and not entirely been complementary about it since leaving... replaced by a voice who I'm presuming will be involved in the BBC's coverage over the next week. Quite the ego...