Mark Lawson leaving Front Row ?

[AchyFox]

Can anyone dig the dirt ?

Or failing that speculate wildly.

He doesn't come across as a bully, rather convivial I thought.

I don't want him to be the bully! I know there have been other accusations about bullying managers at the BBC and bosses not doing anything about it. I wondered if the news team put that mention in as a way of drawing more attention to it. Because they could easily just have said "personal reasons".

Although convivial doesn't mean you can't be a bully - much as I don't want to think he would be. One of the worst work bullies I know - an ex friend - is harming and has loads of friends herself. She told me quite openly how she tated her underlings at work, involving screaming at them and sidelining people. I was horrified, she thought it was her right as a boss.

Bah that's charming not harming, bloody iPad.

(I notice my iPad is always at pains to write "iPad" correctly, while messing everything else up - what a narcissist.)

The Telegraph (!) says:

'The allegations are said to centre on one presenter and one producer, with one complaint detailing “a culture of bullying and a failure of management to protect staff”, according to reports.'

I believe the complaint was a joint one from several members of staff via their union. Lawson is a brilliant interviewer, IMO, but I suppose that many passionate perfectionists can overlook their people skills when focussing on the task at hand. I don't have any insider information, but that is what I've surmised from the way this has been reported.

'The allegations are said to centre on one presenter and one producer

If it was the producer who was at the centre of the allegations, I think they would have just swapped producers.

So can't help but feel that ML is the "accused".

Hurrah! I cannot stand Mark Lawson. I hate his tortured, laboured 'links' between items that are not - in any shape or form - linked. One of the joys of no longer listening to TA is not having to leap for the off button when ML and his strangulated tones 'rogue vowels' appear.

R4 - 'no longer listen to TA'?!? But it's great at the moment!

Yes, I think he's the 'accused', the wording is quite vague but pointed, I think.

Oh no! I really liked Front Row.

Sorry songbird. I know some folks think that New Bloke has improved it but it no longer works for me. I am fed up with thinking " is acting out of character, fed up with thinking " that wouldn't happen in RL", fed up with thinking "but why? ... does not compute", fed up with thinking "where's X?". Basically, fed up with thinking "".
They are still doing the rationing of actors so there is no continuity anymore. It is not "everyday". There are too many newbies; too many stories started and not finished. I'm not allowed to get involved because stories get cut off midstream. It's all too very intense and then ... nothing, dropped like a stone.

I don't care enough anymore about what happens in the Village, it's too fragmented.

I must admit I've never like Mark Lawson's voice - it has no resonance and sounds almost strained sometimes.

R4 Good points, one and all. Still can't tear myself away though

R4

The real problem with listening to FR is having to dive for the button as WHD spews forth at 1945.

Why they need to repeat this crap is beyond me.

I hate his tortured, laboured 'links' between items that are not - in any shape or form - linked.

Oh I hear you! All that "'and today as tensions mount in Ukraine and its neighbours in Romania and Bulgaria look on nervously we take a look at Children's Television of the 1970s and ask 'is the time right for a Wombles retrsopective on BBC4'" I don't mind John Wilson and I still miss Francine Stock.

I can't agree that he seems convivial, I've always thought he seems quite smug and self-satisfied. I like Front Row as a programme though so hope that survives.

WHD spews forth at 1945....

Who is WHD please?

Woman's Hour Drama

- of course.

I was somehow thinking it was a presenter ... I knew not whom ...
talking about the end of WW II

Oh, if only it were a one-off Network ... if only.

But do you really hate it that much? I sometimes listen, sometimes not, but consider those 15 minute slots are often better than other '15 minute' shows that are used in various sections of the schedule (23:00-23:30, 15:30-16:00, and worst: 13:45 - why TF did they extend WatO {nearly included 'The'... News filling 30 minutes can be bad enough when you know the topics at 12:00 and 12:30, but to allow them 45 minutes of speculation on some days is excessive!}), so while I understand you may dislike WHD in the extreme, I don't... takes all sorts :)

"'and today as tensions mount in Ukraine and its neighbours in Romania and Bulgaria look on nervously we take a look at Children's Television of the 1970s and ask 'is the time right for a Wombles retrsopective on BBC4'"
Perfect!!

Yes I hate WHD

Re WATO going to 45 minutes:

Basically Martha Kearney twisted peoples arms I suspect.
For about a year prior to the increase, she was doing this strange thing with her delivery, a sort of highly emphasised robotic sing-song, throughout the programme.

As soon as it went to 45mins, that all stopped and she spoke normally.

I am fairly sure she just told them: Give me 45 minutes or I am going to be your work-to-rule-sing-song-robot-at-one forever.

And they back her and sack Quentin Cooper.

WHD at 7.45 was always the sign I was working too long hours/too far away if I heard that. Only once did I get very into it and that was a dramatisation of a true story I think about an opera singer and I timed leaving the client site so I knew I'd still be in the car on Friday at 7.45.

Pseudo d'you think I could get a job writing Front Row links .

Have just come back to this thread (OK, long time, I know), because I had not known he had actually left. My error, but in my defence, I use an App on several mobiles called "TuneIn" and whenever Front Row is on, or if listening to a recent broadcast, there's an image of Mark Lawson, hence my assumption he had just taken a break (not having read the content of the link until today).