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[simon b]

On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 11:28  am, peel@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> What a fantasic article about Mr Peel (nee Ravenscroft) in the
> Evening Standard this week.
> "like Tony Blair his' pretty straight kinda guy' persona rings false
> because behind the interminably wry, self effacing exterior lies a
> cynical oppurtunist with a major pulic school education,
> whose "hipness" doesnt prevent him from presenting insincere, insipid
> hinterland-before-senility trash, nor voicing just about any and
> every TV ad and docu soap series hes offered"


This is Victor Lewis-Smith criticising someone for working on popular 
television in an article he's writing in *the* *evening* *standard*?

Oh, and Peel turns down adverts all the time - there's a lucrative 
trade in 'sounds a bit like peel voiceovers'  (see: pepparami, for 
example) picking up the work he refuses on ethical  grounds

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