I Love Lucy

[callmemadam]

Comments

[gwendraith]

David Starkey is a bit of an old fool and unforgivingly rude ;)

I like Lucy although I think she's an acquired taste and I want to rip her slides out of her hair :)

[callmemadam]

I must be one of the few people who actually rather likes David Starkey.

[gwendraith]

Well, he does often say exactly what people are thinking and he can be entertaining in that arrogant way of his :)

[ext_1206575]

I adore both Lucy and David Starkey! Actually, I am quite fond of anyone with a passion for history who is willing to share every tidbit and morsel with me. Hopefully Lucy's programs will air here in Ontario but if they don't I am not beyond a bit of illicit viewing via the internet.

[callmemadam]

I hope you get to see the programmes.
Lucy Worsley has a new series coming up, about seventeenth-century women. When does she sleep?

[ext_1135521]

I like David Starkey too, much better than Simon Schama, for instance. And Lucy is fun, though the slides irritate me; they do go with her 'mischievous elf' persona though.
Mary Beard is great at getting history across and alive but I have to admit her hair drives me mad! I know several 50+ women with long flowing grey locks and it always makes me wonder what they do with it when they're cooking! And Mary B doesn't look safe on a bike with all that hair just asking to get tangled up in the spokes. She may insist that she doesn't care what she looks like but long flowing hair is a statement anyway! (But it's a darned sight more sightly than some of the paunchy chaps who pontificate on television...)

[callmemadam]

Hah, we seem to be quite the little Starkey fan club here :-)

I don't like long, ratty grey hair but that's the way MB wants to look and a makeover would be ridiculous. You are right (of course) about men on TV.

[anonymous]

Well said. Love Lucy. Haven't really seen Mary Beard on TV but I thought she talked a lot of sense on Question Time. I have to say that I do like to read AA Gill although I don't always agree with him!
Nicola@vintagereads

[callmemadam]

I didn't hear that Question Time but I believe you. What MB says is so interesting that it doesn't matter what she looks like. Not that I'd take her as a style model :-)

Lucy

[ext_1142725]

I love Lucy - she's excellent fun, and hardly off the TV these days. Only caught a glimpse of Mary Beard - fear my hair would look like hers if allowed to grow. But why are we so 'Lookist'? (Actually I like Lucy's clothes too, and don't even mind the hairclip!)