First Listen: Ambridge Extra, BBC Radio 4 Extra
The first voice we heard had an American accent, of the Deep South persuasion (badly affected, in the great tradition of radio drama), recanting about the importance of marriage. Listeners were promised a trip out of the safety of Ambridge – but across the Atlantic? Perhaps not though – with the clunky insertion of a date, listeners old and new know they are hearing something that happened last year: "The Wedding March" and pealing bells quieten, and with the introduction of some unfamiliar voices, we are with Alice Carter, née Aldridge, and her Southampton University friends watching the DVD of her Las Vegas wedding to Christopher Carter – a source of great controversy in Ambridge at the time.
Tika Sumpter: I always want to have something to offer
"I hope to be doing more film and maybe musical theater. I want to have a solid,...
The first voice we heard had an American accent, of the Deep South persuasion (badly affected, in the great tradition of radio drama), recanting about the importance of marriage. Listeners were promised a trip out of the safety of Ambridge – but across the Atlantic? Perhaps not though – with the clunky insertion of a date, listeners old and new know they are hearing something that happened last year: "The Wedding March" and pealing bells quieten, and with the introduction of some unfamiliar voices, we are with Alice Carter, née Aldridge, and her Southampton University friends watching the DVD of her Las Vegas wedding to Christopher Carter – a source of great controversy in Ambridge at the time.
Tika Sumpter: I always want to have something to offer
"I hope to be doing more film and maybe musical theater. I want to have a solid,...
- 4/9/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Russian anchor fired for comments
MOSCOW -- One of Russia's best-known television anchormen has been sacked after making a sarcastic reference to a former station boss during a live news broadcast. Alexei Pivovarov, a presenter of independent television company NTV's popular evening news show Strana I Mir' (Country and World), was sacked on Tuesday by channel chiefs within minutes of the end of a live broadcast of the show in which he made a caustic jibe about the station's former general director Nikolai Senkevich. News of his sacking was not made public until late Wednesday night. Pivovarov was presenting a news item about former NTV presenter Leonid Parfyonov, who was sacked last June after management pulled a controversial interview with the widow of a Chechen rebel leader allegedly killed by Russian agents in Gulf state Qatar.
- 12/10/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Top Russian TV anchor is fired
MOSCOW -- Leonid Parfyonov, one of Russia's top television anchors, was fired Wednesday and his popular weekly current affairs show axed by NTV after he accused managers of caving into pressure from the security services when they pulled an interview with the widow of a slain Chechen rebel from Sunday's edition of "Namedni". The decision to cut the exclusive interview with Malika Yandarbiyev -- whose husband, a former Chechen rebel leader, was killed earlier this year in Qatar, allegedly by Russian agents -- set Parfyonov off. He gave a series of media interviews Monday and Tuesday identifying the move as the work of the KGB successor body, the Federal Security Service.
- 6/4/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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