Tom Conti says BBC is afraid of poshness

By Tim Walker 1000PM GMT sixteen March 2010

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He feels commissioning editors would be demure to benefaction a grand air wave play such as the instrumentation of Frederic Raphaels The Glittering Prizes, that helped to have his name when it was aired by the BBC in 1976.

"What you are observant when you contend you cant have anything "posh is "we dont goal for anything; we dont make an effort to anything and that is a lethal approach to think," says Conti. He feels the BBC is reluctant, too, to promote the voices of people who verbalise properly.

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On Monday, I disclosed how the BBC had, to the fear of many, deserted a play about the hold up of Jeremy Thorpe, that was to have starred Rupert Everett, evidently on monetary grounds.

In 2003, I began a sharp-witted discuss in between BBC presenters after I reported how they were speedy to squash the "a" in difference such as "Newcastle" and "staff". Bill Turnbull, an Old Etonian, was one of the couple of who was justly facing the fad.