Thursday, May 03, 2012
Unbeatable aptronym
Two supremely perfect aptronyms in one story. The story was already perfect without the aptronyms!
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The corridors of Television Centre often reeked of the class B drug as BBC employees and visiting pop groups regularly smoked joints. On one occasion, Rick Jones and Lionel Morton, presenters of Play School, got stoned before filming the children’s programme, it is claimed.
As well as drugs, the BBC was apparently also a hot bed of sex with staff “bonking all over the place”. Recalling his time on Play School for a BBC documentary, former presenter Johnny Ball revealed that drug use spilt on screen in a nativity scene.
He said: “There was Rick Jones, Lionel Morton and myself. They got stoned on the biggest joint you’ve ever seen — in the studio. “They were absolutely stoned out of their minds.”
Others told how a culture of drug use was effectively tolerated at the BBC.
Joan Bakewell, the presenter, said.....
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