dead John Dunn Rip

[IKYWN 6]

Another BBC DJ kicks the bucket> I wonder who will be next?

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/t...dio/4050341.stm

[Cerberus 302]

Alan "Fluff" Freeman gets my vote.

 

Not a good year for BBC radio. Alastair Cooke, Hubert Gregg, Peely and now John Dunn.

 

I used to quite like JD's show. Long before I became a Radio 2 listener, I used to hear his show in the car on the way home from various trips and holidays.

 

It used to come before (or after) something called "Waggoners Walk" (Radio 2's answer to "The Archers"

[Poetry Man 2]

I liked John Dunn and remember him from my paper round days. He used to be on the wireless at 5.30am - and at that time, was the only thing on the wireless at 5.30am.

 

He and Ray Moore were the best, hope they are both having a good natter now.

 

RIP JD

[Slave to the Grave 26]

Wireless???

[Teddy 21]

Wireless???

Slave, are you a youngster? - cos all us old fogeys know that 'wireless' is the

name for a battery powered radio, back in the days before personnal cassette players and portable CD players.

[satboy 2]

Wireless???

Slave, are you a youngster? - cos all us old fogeys know that 'wireless' is the

name for a battery powered radio, back in the days before personnal cassette players and portable CD players.

Bah; new fangled term.

 

What's wrong with listening to the Crystal Set anyway?

[Slave to the Grave 26]

No Teddy, I consider myself to be knocking on a bit. In my young days they were always referred to as 'Trannys', I think before the term became more widely used elsewhere.

 

My Nan used to refer to her radiogram as the 'wireless' though.

[Death Watch Beatle 41]

Dunn Over!

 

I'll get my coat.

 

DWB

[Teddy 21]

Reminds me of the metaphysical poet, John Donne, he of the 'no man is an island' sermon.

 

After falling out with his wife, Anne, he apparently wrote a little ditty...

 

'John Donne,

Anne Donne,

Undone'

 

 

I know a certain Lib Dem MP who could do with reading some John Donne poetry

[Typhoid Harry 23]

I've always chaffed over the "metaphysical" label as a French invention. "Let us write with such obfuscation as that only the enlightened will perceive our greatness." It's "The Emperor's New Clothes" manifested. Donne was a gifted poet conflicted by his zealous religious upbringing and his logical mind; guess which side won, and became demented in the process?

 

/professor mode

[Stayin Alive 26]

Over Dunn It?

[Typhoid Harry 23]

Over Dunn It?

By a tonne.

[mattd007 1]

metric or U.S. ton?

[MadMac 98]

How about Jimmy (not so) Young? He must be in his 80s now.