If you are under 65 ...

[CorporalJohn]

If you are under 65 do you know who these people are?

They were significant figures in their day, but now?
Bernard Levin
Katherine Whitehorn
Bernard Braden
Nemone Lethbridge
Jill Tweedie
Robin Day.

{They are in no particular order BTW}

I know 0.

58 - heard of the 2 Bernards and Robin Day

I’m 53, heard of Bernard Braden and Robin Day

Robin Day, "lady at the back in the checked dress, yes you, what did want to ask the Prime Minister".

I'm 36 and don't know any of them, it's not even an "oh yeah, I have heard of them" when I google.

Katherine Whitehorn and Jill Tweedie. Think they had columns in the Guardian or the Observer.

I'm 45 and haven't heard of any!

I've only heard of Robin Day

61 and I have heard of two (Bernard L and Robin D). I rarely read the Guardian (used to favour The Independent back when it was a broadsheet) so the journalists passed me by. I even looked up wiki in case I’d simply forgotten their names -nope.

I’d be better with R4 journalists and presenters, I suspect.

I’m 61. Know Robin Day. Aware of Bernard Levin; vaguely heard of Jill Tweedie. Don’t know the others.

59. Robin Day, yes. None of the others.

I’m 45 and I’ve never heard of any of them

60, heard of Robin Day but not the others.

Yes
Yes
No
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Why?

Never heard of them

This.

Never heard of them. Fab names though!

I’m 50 and I’ve heard of all of them, but mainly because I grew up with a massive interest in media and current affairs. Some of them were still writing newspaper columns when I was a kid. But there’s really no reason why people should have heard of them. I suspect most 65+ people haven’t heard of most of them either.

There’s no way my MIL will have heard of any of them bar Robin Day (and possibly Bernard Braden?) because she wasn’t someone who was reading broadsheet papers and watching the kinds of TV programmes those people appeared on in their heyday. My mum will know Day, Braden, Levin from TV and possibly Whitehorn and Tweedie from columns in the Guardian if she remembers them.

No. I couldn’t even hazard a guess.

65 and I’ve heard of all of them.

I know Robin Day, Katherine Whitehorn, Jill Tweedie and Bernard Levin. But I am in a similar line of work.

I'm 57 and only heard of Robin Day.

62 here, Ive heard of all of them except Nemone Lethbridge.

Bernard Levin - know the name and I can vaguely recall his face but can't think what he's known for.

Katherine Whitehorn - never heard of her.

Bernard Braden - know the name, can't think why though.

Nemone Lethbridge - nope.

Jill Tweedie - nope.

Robin Day - yes.

Late 30s and never heard of any of them.